Greetings,
How timely FIRST's recent notification to "try the other Ethernet port" on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. Our symptoms today are as follows:
In the morning I read the notification of the updated router auto-program program, so uninstalled the old version / installed the update / an reprogrammed the router.
The first time we connected it to the robot everything worked, including the WiFi LAN.
We powered off the robot to make some changes, and that was the last our drive station could connect to the roboRio.
I did remember the FIRST update to try the other Ethernet port on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. At that point, both LED's on the roboRio's Ethernet port were dark, so I was hopeful. Switching Ethernet ports on the router and IPL'ing at least get the Ethernet port LED's on the roboRio lit again. Still, the drive station would not connect to the roboRio.
I next checked the settings in the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. All seemed to be in order.
Then I dried accessing the roboRio's web/Silverlight interface and that also looked in order.
The only way we could get the Drive Station to connect to the roboRio was over the USB tether connection. (I just now realized we never tried tether connecting the roboRio to the Drive Station over direct Ethernet.)
We did switch back to the original Ethernet port on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router, and that time the Ethernet LED's on the roboRio were lighting up correctly. Still, no Drive station connection.
The other programming mentor on our team knew of NI's MAX utility. It could not see a roboRio when connecting over Wifi. It could see it properly when using the USB tether.
So I am suspecting something wrong with the NI MAX interface to the Ethernet port of the roboRio, whereas the roboRio's Silverlight admin interface is working properly. Which I believe NI MAX and LabView are connecting over Ethernet in a similar way to the roboRio, where as over USB the interface is different / yet works without error.
Could someone please kindly suggest debugging techniques / steps to a solution?
I am thankful,
How timely FIRST's recent notification to "try the other Ethernet port" on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. Our symptoms today are as follows:
In the morning I read the notification of the updated router auto-program program, so uninstalled the old version / installed the update / an reprogrammed the router.
The first time we connected it to the robot everything worked, including the WiFi LAN.
We powered off the robot to make some changes, and that was the last our drive station could connect to the roboRio.

I did remember the FIRST update to try the other Ethernet port on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. At that point, both LED's on the roboRio's Ethernet port were dark, so I was hopeful. Switching Ethernet ports on the router and IPL'ing at least get the Ethernet port LED's on the roboRio lit again. Still, the drive station would not connect to the roboRio.
I next checked the settings in the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router. All seemed to be in order.
Then I dried accessing the roboRio's web/Silverlight interface and that also looked in order.
The only way we could get the Drive Station to connect to the roboRio was over the USB tether connection. (I just now realized we never tried tether connecting the roboRio to the Drive Station over direct Ethernet.)
We did switch back to the original Ethernet port on the OpenMesh OM5P-AN router, and that time the Ethernet LED's on the roboRio were lighting up correctly. Still, no Drive station connection.
The other programming mentor on our team knew of NI's MAX utility. It could not see a roboRio when connecting over Wifi. It could see it properly when using the USB tether.
So I am suspecting something wrong with the NI MAX interface to the Ethernet port of the roboRio, whereas the roboRio's Silverlight admin interface is working properly. Which I believe NI MAX and LabView are connecting over Ethernet in a similar way to the roboRio, where as over USB the interface is different / yet works without error.
Could someone please kindly suggest debugging techniques / steps to a solution?
I am thankful,
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