>> I am not sure what you mean here Steve, nobody ever had any issue with plugging the pi immediately into their own LAN. It just works out of the box until you have DHCP enabled on the router.
>>Can you explain what you did?
Sorry, I haven't been clear. I thought I was, but apparently not.
My
preferred configuration is all WiFi. My computer has a wireless connection to my router, as does my Pi. I don't WANT to use Ethernet at all. But, of course, it's a chicken and egg thing. You can't put the Pi on your router network unless you can talk to it, and to do that you have to connect to it somehow. The way I've been used to doing that is to connect to the Astroarch WiFi hotspot by
1. temporarily making the AstroArch hotspot my computer's WiFi connection
2. logging into it at http://10.42.0.1:8080/vnc.html
3. editing the network config to add the WiFi connectionon to the router and making it the default
4. reconnecting at
astroarch.local:8080/vnc.html
and I'm good to go.
After reading your post, it occurs to me that I might be able to skip the Astroarch Hotspot step, by running an Ethernet connection from Pi to Router, and just editing the network config that way, then disconnect it and go all WiFi.
But Ethernet connection is not part of my preferred setup once we've bootstrapped ourselves onto the router network. The only reason it came into the picture at all was that WiFi connectivity to the Pi failed at my friend's place, and it was the only way to get going. Now, given whatever the problem may be, it is once again the only way I can connect to the Pi and run Astroarch. No WiFi on the Pi works, not the Hotspot and not the WiFi connection to my network. I suspect it's hardware because WiFi connectivity always worked before.
I hope that clears up what I am trying to do.