Troubleshooting • Re: Connection Refused Error

I'll give it one more go but i need to know exactly what is plugged into what and more. Right now I don't have a clear idea of your setup which makes it very difficult to offer relevant advice.

1. You've put an OS onto the SD card by using Raspberry Pi imager.
2. When doing so you configured a username and password and enabled ssh
3. You then created a file in the boot partition called either ssh or ssh.txt
4. Did you enter WiFi credentials?
5. You booted the Pi from this SD card
6. Did you allow time for the first boot script to run (that configures the user, Wifi, ssh, expands the root file system, and more)?
7. You have an ethernet cable connect to the Pi. What is the other end connected to? The laptop, a switch, your router, something else?
8. If the answer to the above is not "the laptop", is the laptop connected to teh same network and how?
9. Are you still seeing "its light up 4 green led"? if you are, you cannot be connecting to that Pi as all the flash codes (see https://www.raspberrypi.com/documentati ... lash-codes) indicate a boot failure.
10. Are those flashes all the same duration?
11. Which "man on the internet says its ok"?
12. What is the exact command you are using on the laptop to connect to your Pi? If using a GUI ssh client (e.g. putty) which one and with what settings/options.
13. Can you ping the pi from the laptop?

Even with the above, there will likely be follow up questions. And there is no guarantee I will be able (or have the patience) to help further.

Your best tools to debug this are either a keyboard, monitor, and mouse connected to the Pi5 or a Raspberry Pi Debug Probe (USB end to laptop, UART to debug port on the Pi5).

Debugging network issues without a connection to the Pi that doesn't involves the network is almost impossible.

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Wed Nov 20, 2024 5:38 pm

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