[LCA2019 Chat] Headless RPi setup

[Jason Lewis]

I’m going to slightly hijack your thread (apologies) by asking:

Why is this so difficult on the RPi when the problem was solved so elegantly on the Beagle Bone Black? On the BBB you simply plug the USB port into your computer and it acts as a NIC, then you can ssh into the BBB

why has the RPi never taken this approach?

> On 21 Jan 2019, at 12:47 pm, Matt Cengia <mattcen+linuxconfau at mattcen.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Has anybody found an effective way to set up their RPi Zero yet, in the absence of a male micro-USB to female USB A connector, and a mini-HDMI adaptor (or HDMI-capable screen)?
> 
> I've dropped Raspbian full onto my microSD card, followed this guide to set up networking, enable SSH, and have set a unique hostname in /etc/hosts and /etc/hostname, and then booted the device.
> 
> SSHing to <hostname> or <hostname.local> is unsuccessful. It's possible that inter-device connection is blocked on the LCA wifi, or that I've done something wrong.
> 
> Interested in others' experiences. No big deal, though.
> 
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> Regards,
> Matt Cengia
> 
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