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Invisible Pi?

jimjulian
jimjulian over 9 years ago

Hello,

   I just received a Raspberry Pi 3. My goal is to use the Pi as a motor control/ data acqusition device for a solar panel array.

   I'm new to Pi, but not personal computing devices.

   my sole computer, aside from smart phones, is a laptop. I don't have an HDMI monitor or USB mouse. I want to connect to the Pi with my laptop and have tried, but failed. The method developed by Meltwater seems most promising but I cannot ID my Pi. I have tried to get the IP address several ways :

FindMyPi, 32, 64 bit versions

nmap -sn, -v -sn 192.168.0.1/24

arp -a

netstats -a

Network Analyzer, iPhone

Angry IP Scanner

ping raspberrypi, raspberry?

router DHCP list

All failed.

When I use putty, freesshd, xming, I get the login box but tge password is rejected

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  • rew
    0 rew over 9 years ago

    Well, when you use putty, and get the login prompt, then you HAVE FOUND YOUR PI. You can stop using nmap, netstats, angry IP scanner and whatever!

     

    Default username/password for a raspbian image is "pi" as the username, and "raspberry" as the password. The password will not echo (as is usual with passwords).

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    0 jimjulian over 9 years ago in reply to rew

    I know.

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    0 jimjulian over 9 years ago in reply to rew

    I started looking for the IPA because putty requires the address. I have been using the 'autoconfigured' address Windows set up for the ethernet LAN port. That number was obviously not working so I began my search.

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  • pettitda
    0 pettitda over 9 years ago

    Do have your Pi plugged into your network with an ethernet cable?  Or are you trying to use WiFi to connect?  If you are trying to use WiFi, the Pi doesn't know how to connect to your network until you set it up.  Your best bet is to connect it to your router with a cable, setup the wifi, then disconnect the cable. 

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    0 rew over 9 years ago in reply to jimjulian

    Wait, are you saying that you enter the Windows IP address in the putty "connect to" square and then you're getting a login prompt? That would mean that you're connecting to your windows box, and that your windows box is actually running an SSH server. That's unusual as far as I know. But I haven't used windows in like 20 years.

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    0 jimjulian over 9 years ago

    Thank you for your help.

       I have since discovered that I can use ICS, Internet Connection Sharing, by setting my wifi access point to share and forcing the IPv4 properties of the ethernet access point to 192.168.137.1, I get full access to the Pi.

       I ping raspberry.mshone.net to get the session's address assignment.

       I can arp -a and look for the MAC address that begins with B8, the first term in Raspberry Pi Org's range of assigned addresses. There are several ways to get the days assigned address once the IPv4 address has been fixed at 192.168.137.1.

       In XP and earlier, the address was 193.168.0.1, but in Win 7, the number changed. Apparently, the change has to be done manually in Win 10.

       Special thanks to Syed Anwaarullah and his web article.

     

    Thank you,

    Jim Julian

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