anglecard48 wrote: > I am truly an idiot. > > I am now looking at the piCorePlayer that's installed on an SD card I > burned and is inserted in my Raspberry Pi. See screen shot for > verification. > > Yesterday, when I had bothered all of you generous people saying I could > not connect the RPi to my network and hooking up an HDMI monitor did not > solve the problem, I had omitted one very important step. I had not > connected the RPi to my router. > > What I did when I received the micro HDMI cable is I excitedly took my > RPi and SD card to my most accessible TV and plugged it in and saw no > connection in the display text. I tried other cards and no card with the > same result. I thought I would see there a url with the RPi's network > address. > > I had mistakenly understood that the RPi / piCorePlayer somehow would > have a network address, I guess, imbedded or maybe it would > automatically connect wirelessly. I had previously, as you know, tried > to connect RPi to my network by ethernet cables into router sockets but > with no HDMI display and could not see it on my list of devices > connected to my network. > > Last night I shot upright in bed at 2:38 a.m. thinking what if the > network address is only accessed if the device is plugged in - via > ethernet - to the network? In other words it isn't something imbedded or > gotten via a wireless connection. I should have taken the TV to the > router and RPi not the RPi to the TV. > > So, this morning I took the smallest TV in the house to the router, > hooked up RPi with SD card to the TV, ethernet to router, and turned all > on and viola. > > I feel like a complete halfwit. I apologize to you all. My wife has > reminded me for many years that I am the kind of person who has to have > everything clearly spelled out. I always assumed she was just talking > about things that she told me to do, to which I didn't give my full > attention. No, I am thick. > > Be that as it may, I can now move on to the step: "Main page", scroll > down to bottom of page and click the "Beta tab", dismiss warning." as > kidstypike instructed way back at the beginning of this fiasco. I hope > all goes smoothly now. > > Again, please accept my apologize and my gratitude.
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