After flashing the image and inserting the SD card into the RPi, I am able to get to a screen that requests the login info. I don’t have a keyboard right now so I’d like to SSH into the unit connected to my windows 7 PC, but I have been unsuccessful so far.
According to ipconfig the RPi’s IP is 169.254.57.35, but putty gives me a “Network Error: Connection Refused” when I try to connect on port 22. Any idea what might be going on?
that’s an IP that is auto allocated whenever the network interface can’t obtain an IP from the DHCP server
either fix your DHCP configuration on your LAN or set a static IP on your rPi3 host
I guess you had a keyboard connected to get the ip…
So, did you already try to ping another ip address from your Raspberry Pi?
As 169.254.x.x is an APIPA address, I doubt that your RPi is connected to the LAN correctly. Maybe your ethernet cable is broken. But it’s also possible that the sd card image is broken.