danabdn

Hello,

I managed to create a light flashing program in response to pressing the on-board button. Woo!

Now I'm trying to perform a simple GET request, but for some reason I seemed to have hit a brick wall connecting to my local network..

When I plug in my Ethernet wire into Netduino Plus 1 (powered from USB), no network lights turn on or even flicker... neither on the hub/router or those 3 little lights next to the Ethernet port. 

Do I have to turn networking on? Either from MFDeploy, in code or a perhaps event a tiny switch on the board?

Does this typically indicate I have a broken board?

Do the lights only light up when the network is in use?

I find my code crashes when it attempts to open a socket.

4.1 firmware is on the board.

Appreciate any hints - I'm a programmer but this is my first journey into electronics so be kind

Many thanks,

Dan.