In this tutorial, part 2, I take you through setting up a Raspberry Pi so that it can be accessed over SSH without knowing the IP address.

I also adress an issue I've been having with the popular EDIMAX wifi dongles in which they go to sleep preventing SSH access into the Raspberry Pi.

The forum post describing the fix to the EDIMAX dongle issue can be found here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=61665

Instructions as follows: Create a new file called: sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/8192cu.conf

Add the following lines to the file, save and reboot:

Disable power management

options 8192cu rtw_power_mgnt=0 rtw_enusbss=0 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76GMzedAPCk