I changed my laptop ip address to the same string as the antminer 192.168.1.97 and logged in.
No. Your laptop IP should be different from your Ants IP.
Example:
Ant IP (from sticker) 192.168.1.99
Your laptop settings should be:
IPv4
IP adrress: 192.168.1.254
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
Notice that: 192.168.
1.99 is important.
If you Ant has 192.168.
2.xx it won't work as they will be on different network settings.
So you have to make you IP settings:
192.168.2.254
Gateway: 192.168.2.1