I have a similar question. I don't have a keyboard and my raspberry pi is connected via ethernet to the provided ports in the apartment but the apartment complex uses the PavlovMedia provider, I'm not sure if that's what's causing the difference. But I puggled in my raspberry pi and attempted to ssh to 192.168.1.1 but nothing seems to be happening, it just hangs on that part. Is there any way to figure out what the IP address of the raspberry pi is or connect to it in some other way without a keyboard?
...and a monitor.
If you cannot ssh in the keyboard and monitor is your easiest route.
Have you done anything to specifically configure your device aside from writing OpenWrt to a card?
The default configuration of OpenWrt will have the ethernet port set as lan with the DHCP server enabled and 192.168.1.1 as its address (with wifi disabled, btw). Connect your computer directly to the ethernet port of the Pi and you should be able to reach it.
Meanwhile, what is the purpose of the Pi on the network? Given that your complex already has a network, is this intended to be a router or some other type of device on that network?
For a monitor I'm using my TV, the keyboard is the only thing I'm missing
I only installed the firmware for the Raspberry Pi 4B and flashed it using BalenaEtcher. I have a couple of smart home IoT devices that I wanted to connect but don't work with PavlovMedia since it requires you to sign in to an account. PavlovMedia also doesn't seem to have any option for guests to connect so hopefully this would allow them to connect to the wifi.
So instead of connecting the ethernet cable from the Raspberry Pi to the wall, I should connect it to my laptop or should I connect the laptop to the pi via another ethernet cable? The pi only has one ethernet port and I was thinking of using a USB wireless interface I had lying around to connect the laptop to the pi.
Since the default address is static with the DHCP server enabled, the ethernet port is pre-configured as a lan port and assumes it is the main router.
You need to change this behavior to interface it with the upstream network, but the question still remains -- should this Pi be available to other users on the network (i.e. other tenants at the complex)? Or should it be firewalled such that others cannot access the OpenWrt Pi?
I was planning on making it available for any friends that come over to be able to connect to it. The idea came from a friend who was facing the same issue with PavlovMedia, and he just bought a router and plugged it into the wall and that solved all issues. Since I had a raspberry pi and USB wireless interface lying around, I figured I might be able to make the raspberry pi into a router and wireless access point to solve the same issue.
This is not really what I'm asking, although it might be related -- it depends on how your complex's network functions and who is accessing it.
Do you connect your computers directly to that upstream network? Specifically, in some places where the network is provided by the building (i.e. apartment complexes, dorms, etc.), that network is considered untrusted (i.e. like the internet at large) and users typically opt to use a router between that upstream network and their own devices. In other places, there are access controls and special login methods required for users to gain access to the network -- in those contexts, a user does typically directly connect their devices to the upstream network (i.e. the user doesn't need their own router).
How does your environment work?
You must get to the Pi first, so let's leave all that for later or a different topic
Set a computer to 192.168.1.12
subnet 255.255.255.0
Take an ethernet cord and plug the computer and the Pi to each other and try to ssh in the Pi; we need to change its ip address.
Or simply walk the thing over to a monitor and keyboard and swap it in for this temporary set up.
While true, I don't think we know yet what address (or DHCP) is appropriate, nor do we know what should be immediately upstream of the Pi (the complex's network vs the OP's own router as separate device and/or if the Pi should be configured as a router).
I think we need to wait for the answers I asked in the previous post.
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