hOW to connect the DM9000 inDE2

Hello,

The led keeps on flashing that means that your Dm9000A is being detected but that does not necessarily mean that you are hooked up to the network.

If you are using DHCP and not getting any ping to your board that means you are not hooked for sure. Why dont you change the MAc-address this way

This is if you are using DHCP:

get the MAC-address of one of your computers hooked up to the network and running find its mac-address if you are on windows then use ipconfig on comman prompt should give you the MAc-address.

Unhook the computer from the network and set this mac-address as the mac-address for your borad by going

ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx (this is the computer mac-address).

then go dhcpcd & (this should say something like unable to write to /usr/share/something... and if not able to connect timed-out

Next go ifconfig and it will show the new IP address obtained from the DHCP server.

you should be able to ping it with your computer.

If you have a static IP then: again if you are going through the network get the IP from some other computer which actually works and set that as your IP (unhook this computer from the network)

ifconfig eth0 (new IP).

trying pinging it from your other computer using this IP. This should work

If all of this fails then: I would set up a straight socket connection with server running on the board and client running on the computer. Although this would need you to know raw-ethernet socket programming. http://forum.niosforum.com/work2/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif good-luck.