SSH:
To enable SSH on a RaspberryPi with out a monitor, keyboard or mouse put your SD-Card in a card reader and plug into your main PC.
Open up a terminal and navigate to the SD Card.
# On Mac:
╭─loki@lokiTheGod ~
╰─$ cd /Volumes
╭─loki@lokiTheGod /Volumes
╰─$ ls
BOOTCAMP MACINTOSH HD Untitled boot
Now you are in the Volumes folder, which shows all drives connected to your mac. You have to create an empty ssh
file on the Pi SD-Card.
╭─loki@lokiTheGod /Volumes
╰─$ cd boot
╭─loki@lokiTheGod /Volumes/boot
╰─$ touch ssh
Enter cd boot
to go into the Pi SD-Card and then type in touch ssh
to create an empty ssh file.
You can verify this by typing ls
in your terminal.
WiFi:
Personally this approach didn’t worked for me… so the easiest way to it is via Ethernet.
To enable WiFi directly on your headless Pi place a file name wpa_supplicant.conf
in the boot directory of your Pi.
The wpa_supplicant.conf
is moved while the Pi starts to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
where the the wpa configurations are located.
A simple and for most networks sufficient wpa_supplicant.conf
looks like this:
WPA:
network={
ssid="YOUR_SSID"
psk="YOUR_PASSWORD"
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
}
WPA2:
network={
ssid="YOUR_NETWORK_NAME"
psk="YOUR_NETWORK_PASSWORD"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP
auth_alg=OPEN
}
For more information on this you can look at the Arch Wiki WPA supplicant site (Link).
Have lot of fun with your Pi!
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