Both of our ethernet ports also broke during the first day of competition. We had the robot tethered and were testing our conveyors and shooter which might have created some static (though it seems far fetched to me that this charge would be transfered through the tether cable without affecting the cRIO
).
If anybody has details on a fix for this, I'd love to get this working for an alternate controls system or something for non-official competition. I'm very surprised that this driver station is so sensitive to static shock and even more surprised that we can break the ethernet ports without damaging the rest of the unit.