PuTTY network error: connection refused

[jessemoorescc]

When attempting to connect to the raspberry pi 2 in the video payload using the settings in the instructions we recieve a fatal error network error: connection refused.  We include a picture of the error message and the first page of settings for the 2 modems.  Everything appears to be correct according to the config doc we recieved.

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[Skylar MSGC]

hmmm, so I think there are a few things that you could try.

1) Make sure that your groundstation laptop/pc is on a static IP. Namely the IPv4 settings are something like

IPaddress : 192.168.1.8 <-something that isn't 192.168.1.3
subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0
leave the rest blank

Here is a guide on how to set up a Static IP on a Windows computer that I looked over and its the process that we did in the workshop.
www.howtogeek.com/howto/19249/how-to-assign-a-static-ip-address-in-xp-vista-or-windows-7/


2) Try turning off your wifi to see if that is causing a problem. On MACs it seems like the network driver gives priority to the network with the best connection to the World Wide Web so using Ubiquiti with those computers is a little problematic. Which PC are you using, is it the one that was given at the workshop?

3) Make sure that the Pi is on a static IP also, if not there should be a file in /etc/network/ called interfaces.Ubiquiti, this is the network settings to stream over the Ubiquiti network. If your interfaces file looks different than the interfaces.Ubiquiti file then just do the command: sudo cp interfaces.Ubiquiti interfaces
This will copy the proper settings over interfaces.

If none of these steps work let me know by this post and I'll see what I can do.

[jessemoorescc]

OK, so turning off the wifi seemed to allow us to connect and get video. Thank you for your response and it seems like we have everything working correctly.

Thanks again!

Jesse Moore