Mesa, Linuxcnc with step direction servo's for axis and analog servo spindle.

Hi Guys, I am having trouble getting my lathe to work.
It is an Old Superslant Hardinge.  It has 4 axis, 2 turrets each with an x and z and each with 8 tool changer.
The problem I have is that I have a working hal that connects to the boards, and all the io's are working.  But the drives both axis and spindle don't do anything.  The axis I know the problem is that im wired for step and direction and the configurator doesn't give a setup for that, and using the step configurator and blending the file is giving me a major headache.as its difficult to see what parts of one I need and what parts I can't have.
I am running 7i76-7i77 and 7i64.
Any suggestions as to how I can make or blend a hal file that will do what I want would be appreciated.   

7i76E is connected to the computer through ethernet, the 7i77 connects to the 7i76e with a ribbon cable and the 7i64 connects to the 7i77 with a modified ethernet cable.
The boards have 5v and 24v field power.
It has been a while since I wired and had time to do the cards but I remember that I did flash one for some reason or another. Does it need different flashing for step direction than for analog?
And sorry again, as I said it has been a while since I had time to get into this again and don't remember where to type readhmid

Thanks for the quick response, I am always surprised at how quick you are.
Unfourtunatly I had to leave the shop and go home. In the morning I will see how well I can figure out how to get a man mesaflash to see what I have.

Ok. I put man mesaflash in terminal and it came back with 'no manual entry for mesaflash.
I believe there is a sudo command to ask what the board information is, but I can't remember what it is.

try mesaflash --help
 

I put in
mesaflash --device 7i76e --readhmid

it said 'no 7i76e board found
I just got called out on a service call, so have to go, unfortunately.

You need to provide the cards IP address:

mesaflash --device 7i76e --addr 10.10.10.10 --readhmid
or
mesaflash --device 7i76e --addr 192.168.1.121 --readhmid

   
that pulled up everything about it, but I didn't see the firmware version
See pic.