Crio network light does not light when camera plugged in

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Bongle

So the resolution of this was EITHER:
1) The crossover cable we were using was wrecked (unlikely, because we used it to set up all our network devices)
or
2) We were supposed to be using a patch cable the whole time.

We switched from the generic crossover cable we had been using to the orange cable that came in the kit (which is marked as a patch cable), and the lights went on.

Someone has misled you about the kind of cables you are using. The orange cable is labeled as "Cable Assembly, Ethernet crossover". It is the only crossover cable that came in the kit. Generic cables are almost always standard Ethernet cables, not crossover cables.

Originally Posted by Don Rotolo

There's no way you set up your network devices with a crossover cable; it wouldn't work.

In most cases, it would work just fine, because almost every device involved will automatically switch its "polarity" to deal with either a straight-through or a crossover cable. The Driver Station does this, for example. Neither the cRIO nor camera will, though, which is why the orange cable is required to go between them.