Has anyone come up with an acceptable solution to these issues? I am on my second ethernet shield and both have the same issues. I am using it with mega 2650. I have modified the appropriate files and managed to get all of the ethernet and ethernetV2 examples to compile, verify and upload, but I STILL cannot get the ethernet shield to accept any ip address. I’ve tried hard coding and DHCP…nada!
Is there anyone out there that can help us?