Set Up Raspberry Pi's WiFi Access Through Windows

Okay, had heard that, once you have the card ready for the Pi, it's also readable on the PC - in an intelligible way.

Tried the card from 5 years ago - and, when I plug it in (it's an SD, not microSD BTW - for the version 1 Pi)- I get two new USB drives showing - one readable, the other saying "Need to format." No thanks.

But, with the brand new one I just got, when I plug in, I get..

four new drives! And yes, there's a boot(G:) that does have the wpa_supplicant.conf

So, let's see :)

Yes, that gets the Pi showing up when you run nmap through the Zenmap GUI (for those of you who are wary of the Russian alternative - Advanced IP Scanner).

But, try getting in with ssh and... connection refused. *d Caleb Bergquist. Be thorough man!

Turns out, you need a file in your boot directory called ssh - just an empty file. And that will take care of it. My advice, go to Cygwin and then /cygdrive/g and touch it and you're done. Notepad++ manages to still give you grief, though I'm sure it's Windows to be blamed.

But, beware - what do you do if you've booted up your Pi and now can't turn it off for want of being able to connect? Caveman :( You have to connect a USB keyboard and then, very carefully,

CTRL-ALT-F1 and then very carefully, "sudo shutdown -h now" and see the LED blink 10 times and then you're good to pull the plug.