Well guys I have some good news.
I returned the original board for replacement, which arrived this morning. I downloaded the article from the ME website and changed the IP settings to reflect that of my home network. Re-compiled the code and loaded into the PIC. Turned off the EP5 and connected the serial ethernet card which was then hooked up to my router. Turned the EP5 back on, got connectivity shown by the LEDS on the card and then tried pinging the IP - Success
Opened up a web browser, entered the IP and got the sample page to control an LED on port B - worked a treat. I've also tried this with 8, 10 and 12 mhz crystals - all work fine
So it would seem that the original board was faulty
Now I just need to work out how to implement a web server in PBP - My research (google) through up some conversions on posts dating back to 2007 - but most of the links have long since disappeared. - The challenge awaits !
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