Hi,
Still more questions following upgrading from a DM7000 to DM500HD. (I am surprised this is proving so difficult - maybe I had a similar steep learning curve when I got the DM7000 set up, but that was few years ago ...)
Anyway, with the DM7000 I could use an Ethernet crossover cable, connect the Dreambox to my laptop. Set a fixed IP address (192.168.1.9, no DHCP), subnet mask 255.255.254.0 on the Dreambox, and use Filezilla to get files to/from the hard disk.
I did get this going on the DM500HD, with the official 2.8.2 image that the box came with. I have since installed 2.8.4. Now I cannot seem to get the networking going with this same setup (IP 192.168.1.19) . I have tried restarting the Dreambox network, restarting the box, and powering it off and on. The Dreambox will not respond to a ping, and ftp (Filezilla or command-line) never shows a response.
The network test shows the IP address as 'undetermined'
Does anyone have any clues ?
Thank you
John Robinson