Sorry about that I accidently deleted my pre post while editing.
The straight through cable does work well. I was using the wrong card option on the laptop. switched pi dhcp and its good there. Only problem I have now is there is no cgminer tabs. Only the openwrt I have used the latest download from canaan only mistake i think i could have made was setting up the pi so i can ssh and then hooking it up to the miner. Kinda weird it's not there though. Additionally, there is not an avalon gui that pops up I had just assumed the latest firmware did not have it.
I guess I have to load the mm into it trying to figure out how.
UPDATE-- Got it
I reloaded the sd card and booted it with it hooked up to the miner, I have the avalon gui now. Hashing now. Still hashing but it flipped over to opnwrt gui. I will ll work on it.