MESA card (LAN) failing to connect.

    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.