I finally found an old S9j I decided to use for solo mining as a lottery. I've set the thing up in my garage but can't get it to hash. None of the online tutorials are that helpful because they consist of "do this step" without explaining how or making the assumption that the step will be successful. I have no clue where I even went wrong on this.

I have an APW3++ power source using a 110V standard us outlet. I have successfully hooked it up to the ethernet and can access the configuration settings.

Actual GH is reporting as 0 after 2 hours. I am using CK's solo pool and my miner doesn't register as an active user on that network.

Network settings: DHCP protocol. I found something on bitmain's site about changing this to static. Do I need to do this? What are the gateway and DNS server fields then?

Pool settings: I have URL set to "stratum+tcp://solo.ckpool.org:3333" and worker as my BTC wallet address.

Firmware is updated to most recent on bitmain's page.

Asic status has 0s for all the chips. Fans are both working and unit is not overheating.

Anyone able to assist? I'm not even sure how to troubleshoot it at this point.