I’m using a 27" iMac, connected via WiFi to the router. There is a network cable going from the router to the Laser machine. These are all within a few meters from each other. Nothing else connected on the network except another computer that has no software in it for anything. I do have a Gigabit Ethernet port on the iMac yes. That means I can run a 10mm printer cable from the iMac to the laser cutter.
Wow I didn’t know you didn’t want the screenshots. I made about 45 of them. Ok, how do I run this arp -a command? How will that get the info to you?
Use a mouse/touchpad to select all the outputted text from within the terminal. Then CMD-C to copy the text. In this forum edit window use CMD-V to paste the text. Will make it much more digestible than separate screenshots.
Hold off for the time being. It may be an option but wanted to see if that was an option and wanted to understand your network landscape.
That’s one option and eliminates one potential failure point.
Network devices need to configured to work, especially if removing a router from the equation.
If you mean a ‘turn around’ cable, that was history by the mid 90’s when the hardware detecting the connection.
Any Ethernet cable will work, but you might get into modifying the the ip and gateway on the laser, since a direct connection isn’t ‘through your network’…
He’s not recommending this now, but that idea has hung on for decades too long.
I’ve plugged my machine directly into the Ruida with no issues.
Not sure how old the idea is but I thought it might work but sadly, that also did not work. I then moved the computer to the machine and used a USB printer cable, which I was told in the first place to use by the laser company, but that also did not work. The Ethernet to Ethernet cable I plugged directly into the machine with zero results, and then into the multiport splitter switch and then another cable to the laser machine but that also has no effect. I then booked a technician that will be here tomorrow 10:00 to sort it out. He was the one who was present when they installed the machine. The company technicians had no idea what to do because when some people see an Apple, they get mad, scared and crazy all at once, and he sorted it out because he really understand that principles and doesn’t get faced by the brand. I will definitely let you know what he found the problem was. Thank you very much for all the support, I just cannot continue like this. Tomorrow will be 7 days that I didn’t earn a cent and to us here, in our economical climate that is very scary.
If you want to try something… This is how I connected my Ruida directly
Find your machines (pc) IP. example 192.168.1.113
Set your Ruida ‘Gateway’ to 192.168.1.113… you want it to talk to your machine, not the gateway of the lan.
Set the Ruida IP to something like 192.168.1.200 You don’t want it to conflict for other i/o.
Configure the device in lightburn using the 192.168.1.200 address.
I just plugged the Ethernet cable in and used it…
Keep checking the indicators, such as the lan being connected to the controller… I say this because you could have more than one problem…
There is a utility that’s been around since before most people knew about the Internet, I use it all the time on my Ubuntu Linux and that’s ‘arp-scan’. You might find as useful as ping for looking at what’s hanging off the lan…
Here’s an example.
root@Kilo:/home/jack# arp-scan 192.168.1.0/24
Interface: enp2s0, type: EN10MB, MAC: 74:d4:35:1b:74:68, IPv4: 192.168.1.106
Starting arp-scan 1.9.7 with 256 hosts (https://github.com/royhills/arp-scan)
192.168.1.1 90:c7:92:05:83:07 ARRIS Group, Inc.
192.168.1.12 00:21:b7:8e:15:2b LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL, INC.
192.168.1.113 b8:27:eb:0b:0f:9d Raspberry Pi Foundation
192.168.1.121 d4:be:d9:e3:6f:6a Dell Inc.
192.168.1.100 8c:49:62:61:1a:45 Roku, Inc
192.168.1.103 04:c9:d9:e5:97:0b Dish Technologies Corp
192.168.1.108 04:c9:d9:e5:97:0b Dish Technologies Corp
192.168.1.104 04:c9:d9:e5:97:0b Dish Technologies Corp
192.168.1.101 d8:31:34:f7:76:44 Roku, Inc
192.168.1.119 88:66:5a:4a:cb:3a (Unknown)
11 packets received by filter, 0 packets dropped by kernel
Ending arp-scan 1.9.7: 256 hosts scanned in 1.962 seconds (130.48 hosts/sec). 10 responded
root@Kilo:/home/jack#
You can see the Lightburn Pi bridge and other junk hanging off the lan.
Just out of curiosity, what are you using for the wifi bridge?
I hate to bring up the possibility of the new Ruida controller having an issue…
