Henno, it sounds to me like you're trying to get ethernet going from scratch, and that the Empeg is the first device you've ever tried to connect to on the network. You'd probably have better luck getting two computers talking first, verifying that the network is functioning, then adding the Empeg into the mix later.

It sounds like you need something a lot more basic than what we've been giving you so far. I'd been under the assumption that you had a functioning network, and you don't seem to even have that yet.

The TCP/IP properties for it are blank. Do they maybe need things like WINS / DNS (they're disabled now) , IP Address / Mask, or Gateway Address?

Oh, goodness. Yes, you need something a lot more basic. In your case, the IP/Mask should not be blank for your NIC card.

Okay, here's how it works: Each computer/device must have a unique IP address on your local LAN. If you have a server that automatically doles out unique IP addresses for you, that's called the DHCP server. You don't have one. So you need to hand-set a unique IP address for each computer/device on the network.

For instance, you would need your main computer to be something like: 10.1.1.1, and your Empeg would be 10.1.1.2 and your print server would be 10.1.1.3 and your girlfriend's computer would be 10.1.1.4, etc. Get it? If you don't have a DHCP server doing this for you automatically, then you need to hand-set each of those on the respective devices. In every case, set the netmasks to 255.255.255.0.

Next, check your cabling. You can't just plug two computers head-to-head with a standard cat-5 cable. You need either a) a hub that everyone plugs into, or b) a crossover cable if you're plugging two devices straight into each other.

Try that stuff and see if it gets you any farther.

Somewhere on the internet there are probably some basic primers on setting up ad-hoc LANs. If anyone has any links, it might be good for the Empeg folks to post links to them so that the new Mk2 users will be able to use ethernet even if they don't have any networking experience...

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Tony Fabris