Hey so I'm having a bit of trouble with this project. I'm on a Raspberry Pi 3B and trying to access its terminal on my laptop through SSH. I have flashed the the Raspberry Pi OS Lite onto the SD card and enabled ssh in setup, but am trying to see if we can avoid using a separate monitor to connect to WIFI since we're trying to use a headless Pi. When the Pi is plugged into the outlet through the micro usb to typa A cable there are two flashing lights: a static red one and a green one which is periodically blinking. Also, I can't use ethernet because I don't have easy access to the router in my college building. I've tried pinging the hostname on my windows terminal, but it keeps giving me the response "ssh: Could not resolve hostname tesla.local: No such host is known.". I am aware the Pi 0 2W can work without internet, but I don't have access to one yet. I've looked through other forums for answers and a keep bringing up ethernet or just give me a wifi tutorial, even though the wifi itself or the raspberry pi is being problematic here. My end goal is to be able to set this raspberry pi up with a 125 khz rfid module and use the ssh terminal to execute some code. I hope I can get some input from others here.
Statistics: Posted by vineeths — Fri Dec 12, 2025 4:21 am