I am under the same situation right now. In my circumstance, I cannot simply get the e100 nics working with the modprobe e100.
if the e1000 nics are removed, the e100s appear. lspci shows the e100s regardless of weather the extra cards are present or not.
i have placed the 1GB flash card image onto a hard disk and am booting off that. could you please provide more detailed instructions of how you made your workaround? I don’t know how to edit the binary files you mentioned.