transfer roms though lan cat5 cable?

stoney66

@Shadowblitz16 make sure you can ping the RPI from the windows machine. Open up cmd prompt and "ping 192.168.1.20" see if you get replies.

Also if you have console on RPI run "ifconfig" make sure eth0 has the correct IP address.

Shadowblitz16

under wlan0?
it says that inet is 192.168.0.62 which is its wifi address.
there is also lo which uses the 127.0.0.1 and enxb827ebb34f59 which has a inet value of 169.254.91.47

also I tried pinging and I get no response

uhh and I am getting a bit of it back
Ping statistics for 192.168.1.20:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 1, Lost = 3 (75% loss),

stoney66

if you plugged in the ethernet cable then your interface will usually be eth0. wlan0 is your wifi interface.

It sounds like enx is your RJ45 interface and only has a link local IP so it's not set.

sudo ifconfig enxb827ebb34f59 192.168.1.20/24

then ping should work.

mitu

@shadowblitz16 Are you sure your Wifi isn't connected still ?

Shadowblitz16

@stoney66 yep that worked! thankyou so much!

@mitu
to my raspberry pi?
ya it is I don't know how to shut it off without completely disconnecting though

stoney66

@Shadowblitz16 cool. You can disable the wifi from the retropie menu.

https://github.com/RetroPie/RetroPie-Setup/wiki/Wifi

Note that the changes you made for enxb827ebb34f59 will not be persistent on reboot. There is prob a setting in retropie menu for that, I haven't checked. The url you pasted above https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2018/setting-static-ip-address-raspbian-jessie-lite-on-raspberry-pi will work, you just need to change eth0 to enxb827ebb34f59

edmaul69

@shadowblitz16 it is really easy to connect pi to windows 7. Get a crossover cable and plug it into the pi and pc. After that on the pi exit emulationstation and in the terminal type sudo ifconfig. Look at the ip address for eth0. On the pc use the programs putty and winscp. Use that ip address you got from the pi in putty and winscp to login. Easy as pi.

edmaul69

@edmaul69 transferring roms through ethernet is 1000’s of times faster. Any wireless connection is far too slow

steptoe

I first used Putty, but far too slow due to encryption. I then tried FileZilla, much much faster, but still use Putty to access the PI and run or edit some thinga via Putty through a console on the Windows desktop. N ever used wireless, far too slow and problems with connections as you've found out

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/remote-access/ssh/windows.md

Transferring ROMs via FileZilla is about as fast as you will get over an thernet cable, which is what I use but I use cat6 cables

https://www.dexterindustries.com/howto/how-to-transfer-files-to-your-raspberry-pi-from-a-pc-computer/

Davey92

All i did on my retropie was enabled ssh and 1 wire turned on network discovery on my pc and it worked! With a cat 6 ethernet cable