Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
You can create as many virtual desktops as you want using the
Openbox
Configuration Manager
. These desktops can have names so you can keep
track of where all your applications are.
Network management with Raspbian
To make the most of your Raspberry Pi, it needs to be connected to the Internet.
You can do this in two ways: using an Ethernet cable or by Wi-Fi. Raspbian does
a good job of automatically configuring its network settings for you, but sometimes
you need to give it a helping hand.
Unfortunately, Raspbian doesn't include a graphical interface that lets you configure
your network connections. You are able to configure your network interfaces manually
using a text editor, or you can install a graphical interface to do this.
Connecting your Raspberry Pi to an Ethernet
network
The Raspberry Pi Model B and Model B+ have an onboard Ethernet port. By default,
Raspbian is configured to automatically get an IP address from a DHCP server on
your network.
Sometimes, you might want to manually assign an IP address to your Raspberry
Pi. This is done by editing a file called
interfaces
. To edit this file, you need to
open up a console. The exact steps to do this are given in
Chapter 6
,
The Console
The command you need to run is as follows:
sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces
This will launch the nano text editor. The
interfaces
file, by default, will contain
the following:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
iface default inet dhcp
