How to share Windows internet to Raspberry Pi through Ethernet port

How to share Windows internet to Raspberry Pi through Ethernet port. In this tutorial you'll learn how to share your Laptop's internet to Raspberry Pi using an Ethernet cable.


What you need:

Ethernet cable
Ensure your Raspberry pi Ethernet has no Static IP

Step 1: Find Raspberry Pi Hostname

hostname
The default hostname is raspberrypi. The complete name will be raspberrypi.local

Step 2: Configure your Laptop

Go to your Laptop and open Network Connections and ensure your Ethernet adapter set to automatically obtain IP Address



Share your Laptop's wifi internet


Step 3: Connect to Raspberry Pi using Putty

Plug the Ethernet cable to your Laptop and the other end is to your Raspberry Pi Ethernet port

Open Putty and type the hostname of your Raspberry Pi and add .local at the end. In my RasPi its raspberrypi.local


Login to your raspberry pi using the details below:
Username: pi
Password: raspberry

Finally, check if it has internet connection:
sudo apt-get update

End of tutorial

Kyle Abad





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