Cannot Get Ethernet shield working

Arduino(TM) Shields KA04/VMA04
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I built the ka04 shield kit a few days ago… and for the life of me cannot get it working. From what I gathered, this kit does not use the standard pins most ethernet shields use, and I assume thats why when I upload the default arduino ethernet sketches NOTHING shows up in serial monitor. I cannot get the velleman example sketch to compile… Same problem another user had in another thread, but he is a programmer and understands things I don’t, as I am new to the programming side of all of this. I made changes to the .h file on his recommendation, and it reduced my errors greatly. I still get one though-

[color=#BF0000]‘word homePage()’ was declared ‘extern’ and later ‘static’ [-fpermissive][/color]

What is this? I am using IDE 1.6.6 if it makes a difference…

My solder connections are all very good, I have inspected and re-inspected, so I am fairly certain that is not the cause.

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You might try using version 1.0.6 from here.
It works for me without any problem.
https://www.arduino.cc/en/Main/OldSoftwareReleases#previous

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You may also want to look at this thread.
http://forum.velleman.eu/viewtopic.php?f=43&t=14130

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This worked, thanks! Now just a matter of figuring out how the heck to write code to post sensor readings to the server. I guess just connecting it was the easy part!

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Glad to hear that at least that much is working.
Sorry I can’t help with the rest.