Regarding the Raspberry Pi Training Kit, we must have a WIFI network for our communication channel from the laptop to the Raspberry Pi. If you have an existing WIFI router, it’s good. It will solve your problems early. But you should be able to access the router’s web administration by entering a username and password, then changing the SSID’s name over there. Anyone familiar with this step can try this to join the Raspberry Pi Trainer Kit to your network. You can log into the trainer kit after your laptop joins the same network.
However, if you don’t have a router or have a router but don’t have the privilege to access it, don’t worry, you can still utilize your smartphone as a mobile hotspot instead of relying on a dedicated router. For those whose Android cell phone can turn the phone into a mobile hotspot easily, with these 5 steps. Your smartphone will perform like a router and be able to establish a small wireless network. Check it out (I assume your smartphone is Android, and uses Android 14 OS version)
Step by step Configure Android Phone into a Mobile Hotspot
- Scroll down your mobile phone from the top, then locate the ‘Mobile Hotspot’ icon
- Long-press on that icon, and then turn on the mobile hotspot by sliding the ‘Off’ button to the right
- In the ‘Network name’ field, please fill in ‘Workshop Pi’, and in the ‘Password’ field, fill in the phrase ‘trainerkit’ (all in lower case) as the password.
- Connect your laptop to it via WIFI.
- Turn the trainer kit on, and it will be connected to the mobile hotspot automatically
Just it, and then the laptop and the trainer kit will join together in one network. So, you can be connected to the trainer kit wirelessly, and be able to do any networking command such as ‘ping’, ‘telnet’, or ‘SSH’ to the trainer kit. Just in case you would like to check whether the trainer kit had been established connection with your mobile hotspot, you can discover it by clicking a device listed as ‘connected’, then click once again under ‘Connected device’ in the new window, then click ‘i’ symbol in the up-corner of the window, then the IP address of the trainer kit will be displayed explicitly.
Disclaimer: For other OS versions, the steps would be similar, however you need to pay attention to the steps.
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