Laptop not finding router

[popo308]

Originally Posted by lynca

Can you ping the DS, router ?

We tried pinging it with no success....

Originally Posted by Kingofl337

I believe the problem you are having is your router is configured for 5-GHz N settings. Most laptops don't have a draft N compatible network card. So you need to configure it for both 2.4GHz and 5GHz operation. Also, known as G and N.

Hrm... i will try this but it shouldn't matter if its on 2.4 of 5GHz... im using LAN also my laptop does have an N card so that shouldn't be a problem...

I may just try to reset the whole system again and re configure all the settings.
With my luck i missed one dialog box and messed the whole thing up!

Thanks for the help guys

[Honis]

Since the router has DHCP active, set your labtop to acquire its IP automatically. Wire directly to the router. Do this after all of the FIRST instructions.

If you followed all of the other directions and you are the only computer attached to the router, you should be IP 10.xx.yy.10. Now connect the labtop to the ETH2 on the DS and ETH1 to the router. Everything should be golden from here.

I wish they would tell you to auto acquire in the instructions, but they don't. I've configured 2 labtops this way and both do fine.

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Honis

I wish they would tell you to auto acquire in the instructions, but they don't. I've configured 2 labtops this way and both do fine.

Doing this will work okay until you try to view Dashboard information. The robot will try to communicate with the device at 10.x.y.6 only, and if you haven't set your computer to have that as a static IP address the Dashboard communication will fail.

DHCP will also not give you the expected results in a competition environment, as the field's router does not know what team number your laptop is supposed to be associated with.

[mgurgol]

Is there a way to tell the Dashboard to send the data to another PC. It would be nice to have more than one Dashboard running during testing, with one group following the camera, and another monitoring the motors, sensors etc?