I've tried dumping the image from the original using "dd" but when I copy it to a different card the machine won't connect to the network.
So you are DDing the card over to a new one? And the new card won't allow a connection to the network?
I would recommend setting the IP manually in the new card....cd to /etc/network?? since I don't know what distro that's based on, that folder should be something like that. In there you will find a file that should have the IP.....could be ifcfg-eth0 or something like that. Edit that file with the network settings you want and you should be all good to go.
If you need more info I can post up...I have not gotten my miner yet so I wont have anything to go by. Once I do I can post some more help on it. I am sure there are others with knowledge of it that could post up too.
I was finally able to get the unit's Pi (red-pi, from China) to boot from another Pi's SDCard. I was unsuccessful at building a version of cgminer that could see the cards, though. I believe they are using a custom cgminer patch, as there are two versions on the original SDCard: "/usr/local/bin/cgminer" and "/var/www/cgminer", which is the custom patched one and the one being used by the UI.
The UI is not so great and the version of cgminer they have on the image wasn't compiled with ncurses, so there is no nice terminal view. I hate that.
I'll post the original Pi image so you or anybody else can load it onto a Pi you have there and look around. Right now there is nowhere for us to download an official image.