rpi.md

Raspberry Pi setup routine

Headless boot to SSH over WiFi

/etc/network/interfaces

auto lo
auto eth0
allow-hotplug wlan0

iface lo inet loopback

iface eth0 inet dhcp

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ssid pani
wpa-psk "********"

iface default inet dhcp

Disable power saving on the 8192CU (Edimax WiFi dongle)

/etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf

options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0

User setup

$ passwd
$ sudo useradd -m -G sudo,audio,video,users thomas
$ sudo passwd thomas

Software

$ sudo aptitude install vim tmux zsh
$ chsh -s /bin/zsh

Time Machine

$ sudo aptitude install netatalk exfat
$ sudo blkid
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/tm

/etc/fstab

proc            /proc           proc    defaults          0       0
/dev/mmcblk0p1  /boot           vfat    defaults          0       2
/dev/mmcblk0p2  /               ext4    defaults,noatime  0       1
UUID="4D02-8E53" /mnt/tm exfat defaults,nofail,gid=100,dmask=0002,fmask=0113 0 2

Air Print

$ sudo aptitude install avahi-daemon cups cups-pdf python-cups

/etc/cups/cupsd.conf

[...]
Listen *:631
[...]
Allow from @LOCAL
[...]

$ sudo service cups restart
$ sudo adduser thomas lpadmin

• Browse to https://raspberrypi:631/admin, add the printer and share it.
• For HP printers, choose the hpcups driver.