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I have an old laptop with some spare room inside it. The laptop itself is not much, but it works and I don't really want to replace it. I also have a Raspberry Pi 2.

What I would really love to do is house the raspberry pi inside the casing of the laptop and be able to SSH to it, move files to it, etc. and essentially treat it as a second computer. I can not use the Ethernet port to access the Pi because of space constraints and because I would like to keep the laptop's Ethernet port free. Is there an alternative way to communicate with the Raspberry Pi that will allow me to access a fileshare (either hosted on the RPi or on the laptop) and also log in to the RPi?

Omar and Lorraine
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I am not sure about how you were planning on networking the pi and the laptop both, or were you looking to share the connection? If you were utilizing the laptop ethernet, why not dremel a spot and make another short ethernet jumper next to it or some other location where there is space. What laptop model are you using for this, so we could get an idea of dimensions and layout. If you didn't want to use to ethernet cables to the laptop you may be able to do the wifi dongle route extending the usb so the dongle is not enclosed.

Eric Lewis
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If you just want SSH-like remote terminal without Ethernet, you can use a serial TTY to USB converter, which plugs into the Pi's serial GPIO pins (Tx&Rx plus 5v&Gnd), and the USB end can go into your laptop. This will allow you to control the Pi's terminal from the laptop (with some configuration). For moving files, you'd probably want to stick with SSH (SFTP operates over SSH) using a USB Ethernet adapter to keep the onboard Ethernet free.

Luke M
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