Chapter 2. Setting Up Physical and Wireless Connections

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

• Controlling the RPZ from the UART GPIO port using the console cable
• Adding a Wi-Fi dongle over USB OTG
• Hacking RPZ hardware to add a permanent Wi-Fi dongle
• Setting up dynamic and static IP addresses for the RPZ
• Pinging from another computer over same network
• SSHing your RPZ from your desktop computer
• Sharing a screen on your desktop computer
• Copying different files to and from your home network
• Adding USB functions to Raspbian Jessie
• Using a virtual serial adapter on USB OTG
• Programming over a virtual Ethernet modem on USB OTG
• Making your RPZ a USB mass storage device