No idea what your problem is. All I can say is that I plugged it into the ethernet port, configured the laptop with a 192.168.0.address, and away it went. Can't say that I did anything clever that I can boast about! It's an ET6 rather than 7, of course, so might be slightly different firmware on the board? I think that I saw something about having to plug into a computer port rather than hub, presumably to avoid having to use a cross-over cable, but even if you are using a hub or switch, most of those are auto-switching these days anyway.

I have the limit switches configured and working, at least as far as the diagnostic LEDs going on and off as required. However, I've lost the printed copy of my IP/M manual where I noted down all the wire colours, connections, etc, which makes things slightly more difficult. Also trying to find out why the e-stop system isn't working. I have e-stop switches and fault outputs from the EM806 all in series with the safety relay so the relay trips in an emergency including driver fault. Can't get it to latch on now, so I suspect a wire has been dislodged somewhere but lost in the cable guide. However, the whole e-stop/relay stuff is independent of the controller - just switches a connection to the board's e-stop input - so the problem shouldn't be anything to do with the ET6.

Struggled a bit with motor configuration. There is a reference in the manual for the basic motor setup that says that speeds are units/sec (not units/min, like Mach3) but it's not defined for the "motor tuning" page. I've just set very conservative values as I would rather the motors creep than overspeed and trip the drivers.There is also a min, max, and "mid" speed to define - but I can't find an explanation of the "mid" speed. But I can't test any of that until I have the e-stop/safety relay working. E-stop handling in this software looks a bit more complicated than IP/M and Mach3 so that's going to need a bit of decoding as well.

I'll do a bit more reading tonight and have another go, fresh, in the morning. Wish me luck! I expect this will all be clear in time - I had similar issues first time round with the IP/M and Mach3.