I am completely new to the Raspberry Pi. I have a Raspberry Pi 1 B+ and I've spent the past three days trying to set it up with little to no success. I've detailed out all the steps I've gone through while setting up the Pi below, and I'd be really grateful if someone could offer me solutions or a step by step procedure of how to actually do this. Also, I'll need to use my laptop in place of a monitor and a keyboard and I'm having issues with this.
I have attached screenshots below
I managed to flash the image of the OS onto the SD card. I’ve used the configured settings while writing to connect it to my hotspot, as I’ve detailed below. I can confirm that the wlan details are correct. I managed to write it onto the SD card.
I created an empty SSH file before taking the SD card out and plugging it into the RPi. The network connection used by my laptop and the RPi is the same.
The picture Pi5 shows how I’ve connected the RPi to my laptop. I feel this is wrong, but I have no idea what the correct method is. I don’t have a keyboard or monitor either. I want to use my laptop as an integrated keyboard and monitor, and I’d be grateful if you could give me a step-by-step procedure on how to do this. I have a feeling I might be missing a bunch of things.
The Raspberry Pi doesn’t show up on the network sharing on my Windows. It doesn’t show up when I scan for its IP address.
I tried PuTTY with some of the IPs with unlisted manufacturers and got a connection timed out error with a particular IP. I get a connection refused error with the others. I tried using it with Raspberry Pi.local host and got an “unable to open connection to raspberrypi.local, host doesn’t exist”
I have attached screenshots below
I managed to flash the image of the OS onto the SD card. I’ve used the configured settings while writing to connect it to my hotspot, as I’ve detailed below. I can confirm that the wlan details are correct. I managed to write it onto the SD card.
I created an empty SSH file before taking the SD card out and plugging it into the RPi. The network connection used by my laptop and the RPi is the same.
The picture Pi5 shows how I’ve connected the RPi to my laptop. I feel this is wrong, but I have no idea what the correct method is. I don’t have a keyboard or monitor either. I want to use my laptop as an integrated keyboard and monitor, and I’d be grateful if you could give me a step-by-step procedure on how to do this. I have a feeling I might be missing a bunch of things.
The Raspberry Pi doesn’t show up on the network sharing on my Windows. It doesn’t show up when I scan for its IP address.
I tried PuTTY with some of the IPs with unlisted manufacturers and got a connection timed out error with a particular IP. I get a connection refused error with the others. I tried using it with Raspberry Pi.local host and got an “unable to open connection to raspberrypi.local, host doesn’t exist”
Statistics: Posted by TheAstroNot — Mon Jul 07, 2025 6:18 am