I might as well have set my hair on fire today, I'm getting old and senile I think.
Forgetting that I had a power supply THAT I'D PUT THE RIGHT PLUG ON
Then :
Having opened up the BT Homehub last week, I've now lost the power button.
Connected it all up, it wants me to change from the default (but unique) password. But I don't know what that is, because the little plastic tab with passwords & keys on wasn't there when I bought it.
Decide to do factory reset, but realise I need MAC address & serial number from the bottom of the foot that the modem sits on. Spend several hours looking for this, as I thought I'd removed it. I hadn't, it was attached to the half-opened modem case all along.
In the process of looking for the foot that wasn't missing, I FOUND MY NEW RASPBERRY PI that I thought was lost in the post. It was attached with an elastic band to another parcel that arrived a week ago, which I hadn't opened yet as I knew what was in it (a mains lead). I hadn't spotted that the one parcel was actually two, elastic banded together by the postman.
In fact, it was THREE parcels as the memory I'd ordered from China a month ago (but wasn't really expecting just yet) was also taped to it all.
I'm going for a cup of tea and a lie down. I daren't do anything technical today, I'll end up setting fire to something or formatting the wrong disk.
Ian