Raspberry Pi Zero Ethernet Problem

Just a quick check is the otg  plugged to a powered hub with enough current? Mine was not because I needed more than 100 mA which was not provided as my picture setup showed.

Clem

Actually I am having a lot of trouble with my USB hub, and I'll be purchasing another one. However when I plug the ethernet into one of the Pi zero's ports and the power into the other, it still doesn't show up on the network. To be clear I plugged the ethernet straight from my router to the Pi zero and used the other port to power on the zero. With this setup I probed the network from my laptop and found no IP for the Raspberry Pi.

That being said I wrote a little shell script to sleep 2m, then run the commands that you suggested I post the output of. Since I'm having trouble with the USB hub, I photographed the output of the three commands you suggested I try. They are as follows:

A little unorthodox, I know, but it's the best I can think to do without the functional USB hub. Hopefully I'll have that new hub tomorrow or Monday.

It looks like you've got a (most likely static) IP - 10.0.0.30.

What is your /etc/network/interfaces file contents?

I have the same chipset  as you do. Mine did not work until I had enough power(amps) > 100 mA. I used the inside micro for Ethernet and not the outside one(it is power only).

Clem

Okay I see what you mean about the ip address, however when I try to ssh into 10.0.0.30 from my laptop the connection times out, and when I probe the network to see all active IP addresses 10.0.0.30 doesn't appear. Here is my /etc/network/interfaces file:

I have tried running dhcpcd eth0 but that hasn't solved the problem.

The power source shouldn't matter if I have the ethernet plugged straight into the Pi's inner usb port, correct? Thanks for trying the alternate method.

Yes that is true, unless the power supply to the Raspberry Pi zero is nominal in current. Can you get the actual voltage/amperage in front of zero?

Thanks,

Clem

Yeah my power source is five volts and two amps.

That is normal, because most likely your home network is something like 192.168.0.x or 192.168.1.x and you can't connect something with 10.0.0.x to it (assuming you're plugging into the switch-ports on the back of your router).

Something else is setting this (your /etc/network/interfaces file is set up to allow this), what do you observe if you use the desktop GUI to access the wireless network settings?

Also, by the way, this is quite an inefficient way to perform parallel processing (anything else would be cheaper, even a single Pi 3 with 4 x Pi 3 cores are cheaper than 4 x (Pi zero+USB-Eth+SDcard), and

better performing, but I'm guessing there is reasons for it.

He is trying to test distributed code out before moving to a bigger environment.

Clem

Out of interest, doesn't this set up cater for a manual interface setup?

If you are just issuing a "dhcpd" then I would assume it uses this conf file to check  what it needs to do which isn't a lot.

I would initially try forcing it using dhcpd<interface> ....."dhcpd eth0" in t his case

if not use ifconfig to set up eth0 manually and put it on the same network as the working RPI then see if you can at least ping that !

Yes you are right Shabaz... That said if you want to do something like  this you would be better off spinning up a few VM's on your Laptop or what ever than getting all the Zeros involved and thus saving you the Networking costs if y  ou are trying to save cash

Yes you are right Shabaz... That said if you want to do something like  this you would be better off spinning up a few VM's on your Laptop or what ever than getting all the Zeros involved and thus saving you the Networking costs if y  ou are trying to save cash

Yes the reason that I'm doing things this way is because I already had the raspberry Pi's laying around, and have gotten into a little trouble "wasting resources" on the university cluster with trying to test my distributed code. All I had to purchase that I didn't already own for this were the Ethernet to Micro USB connectors. This project won't be doing any real "hefty" computation, I'm just hoping to test code on it so I no longer upset the people who run my university's cluster.