Linuxcnc 2.9.4 and Mesa 7i97T

Hi 
Coming from my safe world of Mach 3 and 4 I have now made the jump into Linuxcnc. 
OMG its complicated!
I have spend almost a week trying to set up Linuxcnc 2.9.4 (and a couple of other versions) on the mesa 7i97T card. 
Is there anybody out there who has made this work?
I can make it ping but thats as far as I can get. From here there is only "board not found"

Is there any known challenges in this setup and will it ever work?

Best regards

Nicolaj Hvid

What IP address is selected on the 7I97T?

What does the command:

ip a

return?

 

The ip is 10.10.10.10
I can ping it.

return of ip a:

1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 ::1/128 scope host noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: enp4s2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:02:f1:ea:a1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.10.10.1/8 brd 10.255.255.255 scope global noprefixroute enp4s2
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
inet6 fe80::74db:6330:9bad:59ef/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
3: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 90:2b:34:64:01:44 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 192.168.1.85/24 brd 192.168.1.255 scope global dynamic noprefixroute enp3s0
valid_lft 3522sec preferred_lft 3522sec
inet6 2001:2012:18ac:2400:a697:d340:a244:6b59/64 scope global temporary dynamic
valid_lft 288sec preferred_lft 288sec
inet6 2001:2012:18ac:2400:922b:34ff:fe64:144/64 scope global dynamic mngtmpaddr noprefixroute
valid_lft 288sec preferred_lft 288sec
inet6 fe80::922b:34ff:fe64:144/64 scope link noprefixroute
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever

What program does not recognize the card?