maandag 29 december 2014

Connecting to your Raspberry Pi without wireless and HDMI

Eager to play with my new RPi, you can imagine my frustration when we stayed at the in-laws and I realised all they had was an old CRT monitor (VGA connection only!) for their old desktop PC (Pentium 4, Windows XP... go figure :) ) and a wireless network my RPi wasn't configured for yet.

After a while, I did find a solution:
- with an old network cable they still had lying around, I connected the old desktop and the RPi
- I couldn't use Windows XP Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) as I couldn't find which IP address the RPI would get
- Luckily; I found a simple DCHP server and configured it in such a way the IP pool only had 1 address
- This allowed me to SSH into the RPi and configure the wireless - some great instructions here
- a quick ifconfig gave me the IP the RPi had received, so I could disconnect the LAN cable and SSH through the wireless connection

Now I'm happily playing with the RPi, from that old desktop!

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