Crio network light does not light when camera plugged in

[Bongle]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

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.

Ah, we had read "patch" off the side of the cable and assumed it was a straight-through, and so had never bothered trying it.

Your theory about the auto-configuring ethernet ports is probably correct, too: all the KoP network stuff is very new, and the students' laptops we were using for configuration can't be older than a year either.