I finally got an HMDI-to-DVI cable, connected the pi to a monitor and managed to set up wifi. At first I was connected to the Internet but still I couldn't ping it from somewhere else. And then I don't know what happened, but everything was working. I swear I didn't do anything! :) I'm not sure if E...

Hey, don't take it that way. It's reassuring to know that other people have problems too!

Well my problem is not with wifi but with a normal wired ethernet connection.

I'm pretty sure my router does not block traffic between devices since I frequently connect from one device to another.

@lmarmisa: I did try nmap and it doesn't find the IP address my modem says it assigned to raspberry pi. I didn't know about fping but I will try it as soon as I get home in a few hours. Still, it's weird that nmap cannot find the RPi although I know for certain it does get an IP from the DHCP server...

I just got my RPi yesterday and have been trying to set it up without a monitor using SSH. My problem is that although I'm pretty sure that the raspberry pi does connect to the network (I see it in my router's DHCP clients list), I cannot ssh into it, ping it or access it in any other way. This is a...