From charlesreid1

Revision as of 17:43, 17 January 2016 by Admin (talk | contribs)

WARNING: These instructions are old.

Interfacing with Headless Raspberry Pi

Step 1: Modify Raspberry Pi boot sequence

Plug the SD card into your computer. Edit the file cmdline.txt to include a directive to hard-code an IP address. Add a space and the following directive to the end of cmdline.txt:

ip=169.254.113.200

That's it. The old procedure required a cmdline.directive, but now the Raspberry Pi boots from cmdline.txt directly. Hooray for removing redundant steps!

Ping169.254.png

Step 2: Cat5 Network Cable

Get a standard network cable and connect the laptop to the RPi. Remove the SD card from the laptop once you've modified cmdline and put it in the RPi to boot it up.

RaspberryPi Network.jpg

RaspberryPi Laptop Network.jpg

Step 3: SSH

Now you can SSH to the IP address you specified using the default username 'pi' and the default password 'raspberry':

SSH RaspberryPi.png