[Mike Thornton]

Try this...
It is best to connect them via your Ethernet router and use the DCHP server in it to automatically allocate IP addresses to any of your Artist Series devices, but you can connect an Artist series device direct to a computer with nothing more than a crossover Ethernet cable which comes bundled with each Artist controller. If you have a PC you must use a crossover cable to connect the Artist device to your computer. A recent Mac will auto-sense and so can cope with a straight-through or crossover cable but PCs are not generally blessed with this feature.

If you do ‘direct connect’ then it is best to configure the Ethernet port and the Artist Series device and allocate them both manual IP addresses.

Choose an IP address like 192.168.0.1 for the computer by using Manual configuartion in the Network Preference Pane and then selecting your Ethernet port.

Set the IP address to 192.168.0.2 for the Artist series device. You can do this by holding down both Page buttons and turning on the device, the display will show a ticked checkbox against “Use DHCP (Obtain IP Address automatically)” uncheck it and click OK and then set the IP address using the highlighted rotary encoder.

Don’t forget to set the Subnet Mask on both devices to 255.255.255.0.

Once you have manually configured both the Artist device and your computer the Eucon software should find the Artist Device and link up to it.

However the simplest method is to use a router with DCHP enables and then all the IP addresses and Subnet Masks automatically and the link up process is made much simpler.