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I do not have a monitor for Pi. I am using just my laptop to connect to Pi. I've tried a lot of things as shown on the Internet but to no avail. I cannot find the IP of the Pi. I can't even figure out if it's working properly. Please help! Pi 3 Laptop : Windows and Kali Dual boot 16GB SD Card

EDIT 1 I do not have a router to which I can login. I am on a college LAN and can use Ethernet/WiFi for connections.

Sam Fischer
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There are three things you can try.

Option 1: enable SSH
Plug SD card into reader and into your laptop. You will see the /boot partition. Create an empty file SSH here without file extension. This will enable SSH on boot. With some luck, you can already ssh into your raspi with default password

ssh pi@raspberrypi.local

Option 2: turn your rapsi to Ethernet Gadget and connect via USB cable
https://learn.adafruit.com/turning-your-raspberry-pi-zero-into-a-usb-gadget/ethernet-gadget

In short:

  1. plug SD card into reader and reader into your computer
  2. edit in boot partition the following with a text editor:
    2.1. config.txt --> Go to the bottom and add dtoverlay=dwc2 as the last line
    2.2. cmdline.txt --> After rootwait (the last word on the first line) add a space and then modules-load=dwc2,g_ether be careful with spaces etc.
    2.3. with new Jessie you will need to create in /boot and empty file with the name SSH (no file extension!), this switches SSH by default on

  3. if you are on a mac (OSX) you are fine, with Windows you probably need to install Bonjour zeroconf service (go to https://support.apple.com and search for bonjour download)

  4. plug the usb cable into the USB jack marked "USB" (not "Power In") and plug it into your computer

  5. Here you should be able to ping raspberrypi.local
  6. if this works you can connect to your raspi with pi@raspberrypi.local initial password is raspberry
  7. from here you can setup your raspi for Wifi etc.

Option 3: Connect via console cable
Get a console cable, connect it to the raspi, if you are on a Windows machine connect to it with Putty. You have to install a driver first. I bought a cheap USB zu TTL-Converter which kind of works most of the time but is very buggy. Try to get the cable from adafruit ~9USD, I believe it's working fine. Search for tutorials on how to use this on their site. USB to TTL Serial Cable - Debug / Console Cable for Raspberry Pi

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Stowoda
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Does your laptop have an ethernet port or do you have a USB/ethernet adapter? If so just plug the pi right in with any regular ethernet cable and run ssh pi@raspberrypi.local the password is raspberry This is more likely to work in linux, it relies on bonjour.

If you have an FTDI cable it's also possible to turn on the UART (enable_uart=1 in /boot/config.txt) which provides a debug serial connection on pins 8 and 10 (http://pinout.xyz/pinout/uart)

Another option is to use a pi zero and configure it as an ethernet gadget (https://gist.github.com/gbaman/975e2db164b3ca2b51ae11e45e8fd40a) which doesn't require anything beyond the board, sdcard, and a usb cable.

plastic chris
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I've got my solution. My network infrastructure is using switches so I couldn't login anywhere. What I did was : "nmap -sP 10.100../24" with . depending on probable IP range assigned on my building. I was successful in getting the RaspberryPi as manufacturers for on of the IPs. Then I simply SSHed in and am using the Pi smoothly. Although, I had to create an empty file named 'ssh' in the boot partition of the SD card while using Raspbian Jessie with Pixel. Raspbian Lite does not need any such thing.

Thanks for all the kind responses.

Sam Fischer
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Assuming you have the SD card created with an OS image. Here is how to you find out the IP of your Raspberry Pi. 1) Connect the raspberry Pi to your router via ethernet; 2) Login to your router and check on connected devices which is typically under DHCP section, Raspberry Pi always has a MAC address started as e8:4e:xx:xx:xx:xx, find the IP address that has a MAC address that match a Raspberry Pi; 3) You can then using SSH command (ssh pi@192.168.xxx.xxx) to connect to Raspberry Pi without a monitor and keyboard. If you are on Window, you probably need to download and install Putty in order to remotely access Raspberry Pi using SSH.

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One way I locate IP numbers of different devices in networks is fing https://www.fing.io/# . It is available for iOS, Android, Windows, Linux etc, and it will scan the network for devices. You will get MAC addresses with the IP address and more. You can usually from deduct wich IP address goes to your pi. I get Raspberry Pi as manufacturer in the list for my Pis when I scan.

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Assuming the Pi has an OS image on the SD card already and you have an ethernet cable to connect your laptop to the pi, you can try this:

  1. Put the memory card into the Pi and connect the pi to laptop via usb - when the green light stops blinking the OS should be installed

  2. On your laptop, open a terminal and run sudo apt-get install arp-scan

  3. Plug in the ethernet cable to the Pi and your laptop

  4. Connect WiFi on laptop

  5. Click WiFi icon > edit connections

  6. Select ethernet (not WiFi!) > ipv4 settings

  7. Change method to "shared to other computers"

  8. Disconnect and reconnect WiFi

  9. Search for the IP of the Pi by running sudo arp-scan --interface=eth0 --localnet. You should see the IP address for the pi. (Note, if nothing comes up under eth0, you can run ifconfig to see if you are using eth0 or something else and amend the command accordingly)

  10. SSH into the Pi using the IP address, for example: ssh pi@10.42.0.99. The password should be raspberry by default

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