I now have the miner plugged directly to the laptop, which has access to the wifi...alot less garble, but still see no ip for the miner...
they dont come with static IP
go to a router that doles out IPs (uses DHCP)
it will take about 20 seconds once plugged in and then the miner will have an IP from the router
then go to the router and check out what's connected to it
it sounds like you have some hotspot card plugged into your laptop that aint gonna help you. If you are doing that kinda of stuff, you need to beef up your networking kung fu