[LCA2019 Chat] Headless RPi setup

[Stephen Hemminger]

I got an adapter and cable at jaycar will put it at rego desk if anyone
else needs it

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019, 5:14 PM Michael Davies <michael at the-davies.net wrote:

> So I’ve done this thing successfully, without said guide. I likewise
> haven’t been able to connect to a hostname.local address (although it does
> work ‘on device’ it doesn’t work from the same conference network segment).
> Still debugging it...
>
> Through another way[0] I’ve got serial access, so I can ssh in to an up
> address successfully. But that’s going to be less useful to others.
>
> [0] for those interested that was via a bonnet with serial access.
>
> 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
> <http://ucmirror.canterbury.ac.nz/linux/raspbian/2018-11-13-raspbian-stretch-full.zip>
> onto my microSD card, followed this guide
> <https://medium.com/@DavidMaitland/raspberry-pi-zero-headless-setup-92fb72daf88d>
> 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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> Matt Cengia
>
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