MESA card (LAN) failing to connect.

I am back at my problem and the same issue keeps arising.  I went through the Mesa ethernet setup tutorial, went to ping my card and nothing.  The response: 5 packets transmitted.  0 received. 100% packet loss.   I thought maybe my ethernet card was not compatible with Linux, so I tried on a second linux machine, same thing.  When I am looking at my 7i92 card with the ethernet port on the left side, I am interpreting up as away from me and down as towards me when it is lying flat on a surface.  According to my interpretation from the manual, the w5 jumper is down or towards me, and the W6 jumper is up or away from me this should give me the mesa's address as 10.10.10.10 .  I am convinced it is something basic that I am missing.  One more thing:  in the terminal I typed:  mesaflash --addr 10.10.10.10 --device=ETHER --readhmid and the response: No ETHER board found.  

Whats does the command:

ip a

report?

 

    Please advise if this is an appropriate response.  Thank you.

No, it's not set in the IP address range of the FPGA card

I would set the host address to 10.10.10.100/24

 

I went to the network manager and tried to input 10.10.10.100/24 and it wouldn't accept the input??  Is there another way to set the host address?

I then went to /etc/hosts and changed the local host to 10.10.10.100/24 which it accepted, then went to ping 10.10.10.10 and got the so far standard response 5 packets transmitted, 0 received

local host should always be 127.0.0.1/8
Don't change that.

You either need to figure out the issue with the  setting up a static IP address
with the network manager or edit the interfaces file as described in the
hm2_eth manual page.

googling debian setup static ip address

will give some more options.
 

Thank you. Will try to pursue your suggestions tomorrow.