Take the tour ×  At the moment, I am SSHing into my Pi from my
laptop. Both are connected to my router. However, it's a bit of
a bother connecting the Pi to the router (ie router on the other
side of the house).  Can I connect my Pi to the laptop with an
Ethernet cable from the laptop directly to the Pi?
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down vote accepted  The Pi's NIC supports Auto-MDIX, so you
should be able to connect it to the laptop using a standard
Ethernet cable.  share|improve this answer Do you know how I can
then connect to the Pi? It comes up as an 'unidentified
network'. I tried putting the Autoconfiguration IPv4 Address
into putty, but no luck. –  ACarter Nov 18 '12 at 11:51 Any
ideas? I'm stumped –  ACarter Nov 18 '12 at 15:21 You could use
a static IP-address configuration on both computers, e.g. set
one to and the other to with a netmask of –  RedGrittyBrick Nov
18 '12 at 19:15 You could also install avahi-daemon on the Pi
and use link-local networking. –  Alistair