begginers stupid question

Hi, just received a couple of Easy WEB II boards from sparkfun.

I attached the 12 VDC, LCD displays “EASY WEB ][ by OLIMEX Ltd.” and connected the Ethernet port of the Easy WEB board to my Laptop.

The ethernet connection does nothing and of course I can not communicate with the board.

Pressing Yellow Button lits LED = STATUS and erases LCD display.

Pressing BLACK and/or WHITE buttons activates Relays and GREEN button activates buzzer.

QUESTION

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WHAT AM I DOING Wrong ??

Note: I assume the firmware is already loaded on the chips and the ethernet port should be active at 192.168.0.30 but nothing happens …

Cheers.

Nelson.

sounds like typical cable problem

check how your cable should looks like at

http://www.olimex.com/dev/images/cable.gif

Best regards

Tsvetan