I have tested moving a joystick to the 5th port to see if it would "trick" the DS into thinking the EI/O unit was present.
While it indeed does light the LED on the Diagnostic tab, it is a red herring and does not resolve my connectivity issues.
On the robot I am still receiving the following exception when I try to configure the EI/O unit:
Code:
edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.DriverStationEnhancedIO$EnhancedIOException: Enhanced IO Missing
Greg, or anyone else with information on what can cause this particular exception while the DS can clearly access the EI/O device, I'm willing to try whatever you can think of.