Start by searching for it with a ping: $ ping raspberrypi.local Once the Raspberry Pi has finished booting, you should be able to access it on the network. You should now see the green LED flashing, indicating that the Pi is booting. Connect the power supply to the USB port closest to the end of the board. You can now unmount the SD card from your computer and insert it into the Raspberry Pi. Also make sure that the file names are spelled exactly as in the list without any additional extensions. The Raspberry Pi Zero W only supports 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi so make sure the you don’t enter the name for your 5 GHz network. ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev

Paste the following into the file, and replace the ‘ssid’ entry with the name of your Wi-Fi network, and the ‘psk’ entry with the password for the network. The ‘wpa_nf’ file contains the setup for your Wi-Fi. The ‘ssh’ file is just an empty file, but its presence in the root during boot will enable ssh on the Raspberry Pi. You can create both files with a normal text editor. This can be enabled by putting the following two files into the root of the ‘boot’ volume: Enable Wi-Fi and Remote Access via sshīefore the image is ready to use, it needs to be configured to your local Wi-Fi and enable remote access via ssh to the Raspberry Pi. Mount the SD card on your computer and check that a new disk named ‘boot’ appears. When the image has finished being written, the drive will automatically be unmounted. This will format the SD card and install the Raspbian Lite image on it. Once you have checked that everything has been selected correctly, click on the “Flash” button. Important: Before clicking on the Flash button, make sure that you have selected the right drive, otherwise you might accidentally format the wrong disk and wiping all its data.

Setup wifi on raspberry pi zero w