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Alright, so I got past the issues I was having. I'm not sure what the exact problem was (I think timing issues with DDR3 RAM), but I made a couple of changes and it seemed to allow me to download to the board without any problem. However, a new issue has arose. After run as -> niosII hardware, it downloads to the board, and gets to the point where in the niosII console, it displays "[SSS_task] Nios II Simple Socket Server listening on port 30" (as expected). However, whenever I try to run the command "telnet 192.168.1.234 30" it stays in a state "Connecting to 192.168.1.234..." There is an LED blinking on my board as expected, but it seems like it is just not making the full connection. I am not using DHCP, rather I specified my own IP and gateway addresses in my simple_socket_server.h file and my local network settings explicitly (I have done this with the Cyclone III version and it worked just fine, so I know I did this part right). Any ideas on what may be the cause of this? It never says connect failed or anything, it simply always says connecting.
EDIT: I discovered an "Invalid MAC Address" message a few line above I did not see before. Checking this out, trying to find the MAC address of my device and hard code it into the C file Thank you