Hi all, I have the Arduino Mega, with the Arduino Ethernet Shield (v1).
I connected the ethernet card to the Arduino, and connected the RJ-45 cable.
I read plenty of tutorials online, but none of them give me the expected result, all of the options are tried, end up stopping at some place throughout the code.
This is the first piece of the code I use:
#include <SPI.h>
#include <Ethernet.h>
// assign a MAC address for the ethernet controller.
// fill in your address here:
byte mac[] = {
0xDE, 0xAD, 0xBE, 0xEF, 0xFE, 0xED
};
// Set the static IP address to use if the DHCP fails to assign
IPAddress ip(172, 26, 34, 177);
IPAddress myDns(8, 8, 8, 8);
// initialize the library instance:
EthernetClient client;
IPAddress server(127,0,0,1);
unsigned long lastConnectionTime = 0; // last time you connected to the server, in milliseconds
const unsigned long postingInterval = 10*1000; // delay between updates, in milliseconds
void setup() {
Ethernet.init(32);
Serial.begin(9600);
while (!Serial) {
; // wait for serial port to connect. Needed for native USB port only
}
// start the Ethernet connection:
Serial.println("Initialize Ethernet with DHCP:");
if (Ethernet.begin(mac) == 0) {
Serial.println("Failed to configure Ethernet using DHCP");
// Check for Ethernet hardware present
if (Ethernet.hardwareStatus() == EthernetNoHardware) {
Serial.println("Ethernet shield was not found. Sorry, can't run without hardware. :(");
while (true) {
delay(1); // do nothing, no point running without Ethernet hardware
}
}
if (Ethernet.linkStatus() == LinkOFF) {
Serial.println("Ethernet cable is not connected.");
}
Serial.println("Will I be printed?");
}
void loop() {
// if there's incoming data from the net connection.
// send it out the serial port. This is for debugging
// purposes only:
if (client.available()) {
char c = client.read();
Serial.write(c);
}
// if ten seconds have passed since your last connection,
// then connect again and send data:
if (millis() - lastConnectionTime > postingInterval) {
httpRequest();
}
}
// this method makes a HTTP connection to the server:
void httpRequest() {
// close any connection before send a new request.
// This will free the socket on the WiFi shield
client.stop();
// if there's a successful connection:
if (client.connect(server, 80)) {
Serial.println("connecting...");
// send the HTTP GET request:
client.println("GET /latest.txt HTTP/1.1");
client.println("Host: www.arduino.cc");
client.println("User-Agent: arduino-ethernet");
client.println("Connection: close");
client.println();
// note the time that the connection was made:
lastConnectionTime = millis();
} else {
// if you couldn't make a connection:
Serial.println("connection failed");
}
}
And the last line of "Will I be printed?" doesn't get printed out, so as far as I can tell, the code breaks right before that. The only thing I see in my Serial window (/console) is:
Initialize Ethernet with DHCP:
I want to run some super basic interent connectivity check / HTML page update, just to see the basics work, but it doesn't..
