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My laptop uses wifi, and Pi is connected to router via cable. With the dynamic IP, it worked well with Putty on my windows 7.

Then trouble came after I changed the /etc/network/interfaces on putty to obtain a static IP. Now I cannot "talk" to my Pi, because every time I start a new session on putty with the new static IP, trying to log in my Pi, putty tells me the error: connection timed out.

Now I even cannot find the dynamic IP on my routers webpage...what can I do to get everything go back to the beginning... I miss dynamic IP. Any one could help?

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This applies to Raspbian Wheezy prior to 2015-05-05 for later (and Jessie) See How do I set up networking/WiFi/Static IP

The default settings in /etc/network/interfaces should be something like

auto lo

iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp

allow-hotplug wlan0
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

iface default inet dhcp

See https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/29806/8697

NOTE It is standard practice on Linux to make a copy of any system file before modifying it.

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