[harryo]

Now that my battery is nicely charged up, I wanted to connect to the iDS to get the 2.5 update.

However, I just can't get it to work.

I'm using a wired connection, with no proxy. When I press Test, I can see the light on my hub come on showing that the Iliad's ethernet port has turned on.

However, after a while of "Searching" it gives up, saying it was Unsuccessful.

The problem is there's no information to tell me whether it got an address via DHCP (why oh why did they not allow setting of a static address?!) and can't find the server, or whether it's not even getting an address.

Can anyone give me an idea how I might resolve this?

Unfortunately, my crappy Linksys router that's providing the DHCP server doesn't seem to log very much of anything, so I can't be sure whether it's receiving a request for an addresss or not.

Of course, I'll bet all this stuff is fixed in 2.5 ... but, it's a bit hard to do anything when you can't connect :-).

I wish iRex had provided a means to just download the update via any means, copy it to the device and then be able to initiate the installation. That would make life so much easier in situations like this.