Just to emphasise the importance of what Jeffery has said, the nice
convenient automated setup of Orca on the Raspberry Pi requires both a
monitor plugged in via HDMI and an Internet connection that is fully
operational at the time the Pi is booted for the first time and set up.
The Internet connection is so the Pi can download Orca and all the
software necessary to install it. The sound prompt to press the key
combination to automaticaly set up Orca is sent out via the HDMI
connection, so you need a monitor with speakers, which it sounds like
you have.
As for the Internet connection, the easiest way is just to hardwire it
to your access point or router with some ethernet cable. That's what I
did with my Pi's. I was then able to set up the Wi-Fi connection and get
rid of the cable once Orca was working. However, if a hard link is not
possible, then you will need to do as Jeffery suggests and prepare a
wireless configuration file and put it on the SD card in the right place
before you boot the Pi for the first time.
If either of these things is missing (that is, an HDMI monitor and a
working Internet connection) you will not be abel to set up Orca using
the automated procedure.
Hth,
Andrew.
On 5/3/2022 11:48, Jeffery Mewtamer wrote:
Okay, a major caveat to the install orca keystroke is that it only===========================================================
works if the Pi has an Internet connection and the audio prompt won't
play if you don't have an internet connection. Generally this means
either hooking the Pi up via ethernet for the first boot or
preconfiguring wi-fi by putting the appropriate config files on the SD
card after burning(In the past, I've done this by putting my wpa
supplicant file in /etc/wpa_supplicant of the SD card's root
partition, but I've read that putting it in the boot partition is
supposed to make the Pi install it properly upon first boot, similar
to how putting a blank file named ssh on the boot partition enables
ssh on the Pi).
That might not be your only problem(first boot searching for and not
finding files makes me think something went wrong with burning the SD
card and removing it from the machine used) but that's the one thingI
can extract from your post where I can provide concrete advice.
Also, when you say "embedded in a UK keyboard" do you mean you have a
UK Pi 400 or is this some third party keyboard with a slot to
integrate a Pi 4? That might be relevant to others trying to disgnose
the problems I'm not sure how to advise on.
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