For some while now one of us has had some difficulty setting up the Wifi on his Pi-zero-W. Here are my instructions for getting it working with the latest OS. This is different to older Raspbian OS's.
1] Flash the latest OS onto your memory card. 2] Before removing the card from the computer, open a terminal in each of the partitions on the card and 'touch ssh' ( might be Sudo Touch ssh - I can't remember). This is for use in the future if you want to access the device when it is in operation. 3] With a screen, keyboard and mouse connected boot the R-Pi. 4] When it is up, highlight the Wifi symbol at the top right of the screen and set up your wifi parameters. This will give you a dynamic IP address. 5] Do the usual sudo apt update and sudo apt full-upgrade and then follow the instructions from here: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-network-manager/ starting at point 6. That gives all the instructions even to setting a static IP address and creating a wireless hotspot. That all worked for me. Note that I started from a different place in that I set up dhcpcd.conf for an Ethernet connection on a R-Pi model B and used that for the initial installation of the drivers for my WiFi dongle, before moving over to the Pi-Zero. Editing this and wpa_supplicant.conf does not work on this latest OS, you need Network-manager. Cheers, Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-01-03 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
