No progress in these many days.
Regarding the cable connection- I am not using a FTDI cable. Instead I just have the Micro USB cable connected for serial communication,
The micro USB cable works for Arduino fine but as I want to use Eclipse and in turn want the IP address of the gen 2 board I require to know the IP address via serial console communication which is not happening.
Is it mandatory to have the FTDI cable for serial communication or the micro USB should be fine?
Also let me know how can i get the IP address of the board without using any terminal emulator?