i am new to mining, and i got a blade erupter as my first miner last week. i pulled the power supply out of an old computer and hooked up the power to the green connector. i plugged the ethernet cable into my router and the port lights on the erupter are working but i can not connect to the configuration page "192.168.1.254:8000". i have i have tried plugging it directly into my computer but that does not work either, my computer sees it as a network with imporper ip setup. i have read that you can use your computer directly if you configure your ethernet port to use a static ip adress is this a fix to my problem. i know im a noob in this field and i appreciate any response i get, i have been trying to fix this for days and cant find anything.
for my setup i followed
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=205369.0wireless router belkin n450 db
power supply hipro hp d2537f3r
miner Asic blade erupter v2