Mesa 7i96 and internet connection possible with secondary ethernet board?

Hey all

I'm relatively new to Linux, so I appreciate your time.

I'm coming from a GRBL build, but wanted dual axis homing, so I set up a 7i96 via ethernet connection.  It's been slow going, and the machine is now cutting with relative efficacy.  Still have some tweaks to make, but due to the amount of information here, it homes well, is square, and cuts well.

I'd like internet for updates.  Since setting a Manual connection to the mesa card, via 10.10.10.1, netmask 8, I haven't had an internet connection.

I added an ethernet board to the PC, and can see my home network on network manager, but it's greyed out, and unable to be accessed.  Even if I connect the cat 6 to the original motherboard port, there's no internet.  I created a new ethernet connection in network manager, setting it to automatic, but it fails to connect. 

I'm sure this is a matter of settings, and unfortunately, my background is not in computer science.  Any help would be appreciated.  I'd be happy to add any further required information.

-Chris

 

I resolved this, by switching the ports, so the mesa card runs off the new ethernet board, and the network cable runs into the motherboard. No clue why this worked.

However, after going to wikipedia, the mesa board has too high of latency. So... new problems, but should be resolvable with a few more restarts.

The latency may be OK. What are you seeing?
With a Mesa card, you don't run a base thread so the latency is much relaxed. < 200000 is probably OK

try from the command line with
latency-histogram --nobase