No connectivity to RPi

AstroBox Troubleshooting
#1

Hi Guys,

I’m using an RPi2+ with the AstroBox-rpi-0_8_3-20151002 image. I don’t have the recommended wifi dongle but I’m happy to connect over ethernet for now for testing.

After flashing Astrobox onto a new SD card I plugged the RPi into my router, No connection. I get solid status lights on the RPi port but only a solid amber light on the router.

Checking </etc/network/interfaces> file on the RPi I get;

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface wlan1 inet static

No mention of the typical line that I thought enabled the ethernet comms.

iface eth0 inet dhcp

When I add in the line I do get something like this on startup

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval…

Then

no DHCPOFFERS received

and still no connectivity.

Thanks for any help you can push my way, I just want to see if my new printer profiles are working on AstroPrint.

Matt

#2

We use the network manager to manage connection. If you’re savvy on Linux you can also configure it manually: https://astroprint.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/207866186-Can-I-configure-the-Raspberry-Pi-network-myself-

#3

Thanks Daniel, I am so very very very close. I can now get to the

“Your Astrobox is still booting up.” screen and it never changes. So I’m connected but unfortunately not working yet.

I screwed around with the /interfaces file as described up top, is that the reason?

#4

I gave up and ordered some of the edimax wifi adaptors

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