Re: Getting along without a keyboard

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:

You need a virtual keyboard, a web search for 'pi virtual keyboard'
comes up with loads of hits.
 
There are several in the standard Raspbian repositories:-
 
    apt search "on-screen keyboard"
 

Thank you, the choice of search terms  makes a big difference!

That has led to another puzzle: The Pi2 is on a wifi dongle that
reports a connection using 192.168.1.10 and successfully downloads
RasPiOS updates. However, turning on ssh using the Raspberry>
Preferences> Raspberry Pi Configuration menu and rebooting doesn't
allow ssh login. Indeed, my DHCP server doesn't seem to notice
that the Pi2 is connected and ping from my Pi5 to the Pi2 reports
"host is unreachable".

It wouldn't be a huge mystery if the WiFi couldn't connect, but the
combination of the Pi2 claiming 192.168.1.10 and yet not being
visible strikes me as inexplicable unless the software updates are
being downloaded vi some non-IP protocol, which seems implausible.

The only clue so far is that traceroute 192.168.1.10 on the Pi5 reports:
traceroute to 192.168.1.10 (192.168.1.10), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
 1  192.168.1.11 (192.168.1.11)  3077.790 ms !H  3077.735 ms !H  3077.730 ms !H
To clarify, the Pi5 is .11, the router is .254 and I don't know what the
traceroute output means but it looks like a complaint about time.

Am I doing something dumb?

Thanks for reading!

bob prohaska