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1. Connect Ethernet and wifi adapter.

2. Power on Raspberry Pi. And wait until all lights on board are on and green light on wifi start
blinking.
3. Type ping 192.168.1.100 t (This is current static IP of Ethernet) on computer command
line and wait until it shows reply from 192.168.1.100 bytes 32 time etc etc . If ping is not
responded, check Ethernet cable connection.
4. Start Xming (its commandline should be "C:\Program Files (x86)\Xming\Xming.exe" :0
clipboard rootless), it will start in background. No window will be displayed.
5. Start Putty with following settings.
a. Host: 192.168.1.100 , port: 22
b. Enable X11 forwarding, type localhost:0 in text box in front of X11 forwarding.
c. Click open.
6. Putty window will open and ask for login. Type pi as login and pi as password.
7. Command line of Raspbian pi will open .
8. Type ifconfig and press enter.
9. Ifconfig should show wlan0 entry.
10. If you use internet behind a proxy, type following commands (only first time).
a. Sudo nano /home/pi/.profile. It will open .profile file in text editor.
b. Add following line in the end of .profile file. (change proxy server address instead of
172.16.16.16 with actual setting)
i. export http_proxy=http://172.16.16.16:8080
ii. press ctrl-x to save and exit.
iii. If you cannot connect to internet still, add this line to /root/.profile and
/etc/environment also.
11. Now type startlxde and press enter.
12. Linux desktop will appear.
13. Double click wpa_GUI.
14. It should initially show wlan0. It may or may not show wifi networks in area.
15. If wlan0 does not show up, open LXTerminal and issue commands
a. sudo ifdown wlan0
b. sudo ifup wlan0
16. When wifi is shown in WPA_GUI, check if your wifi network name appears in list. If yes,
connect to it, otherwise you need to add it using following steps.
a. click scan and wait until your wifi appears. Read its exact spelling because it does
not automatically connect.
b. Go to manage networks, click add and then type exact name of wifi network in SSID
field. If it is password protected, then select password type (normally WPA-Personal
PSK) in authentication field, and also type password in PSK field.
c. If this wifi is up, it will be shown in wifi list. You can connect to it.
17. After connecting to wifi, check if your wifi IP is present on WPA_GUI, if no, then follow
following steps.
a. open LXTerminal, on commandline, type sudo ifconfig wlan0 172.16.22.101 (not
needed if you use dynamic IP if your wifi and proxy do not need IP).
18. If wlan is successfully connected and IP is allotted, wpa_GUI will show connection and also
IP on it.
19. Also type ping 172.16.16.16 to check if you can connect to proxy server. (not needed if no
IP is given).
20. Set Raspberry date/ time by entering command
a. sudo date s Fri Oct 17 HH:MM:SS UTC 2014 etc.
21. Check if Epiphany web browser on raspberry desktop can open a website.
22. Now you can remove Ethernet cable. Because raspberry is on wifi now.
23. From any other wifi-connected system, type ping 172.16.22.101 -t. it will respond if
successfully.
24. You can close putty and re-open it with host address 172.16.22.101 from anywhere via
wireless. Remember to enable X11.
25.

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