Setup Wifi without ethernet

There are situations where these methods will be useful:

• You have a Raspberry Pi without built-in ethernet (ie. RPi0, RPi0W, RPiA, RPiA+ ).
• You have a Raspberry Pi with built-in Wifi (ie. RPi0W ,RPi3B, RPi3B+, RPi4B).
• Wired Ethernet is not available.

Add wpa_supplicant.conf to boot partition on PC #

Step 1

Burn image to a SD card—see Burn piCorePlayer onto a SD card.

Step 2

Create a new file, or download a sample wpa_supplicant.conf and modify.

• Used for quick setup at boot.
• Can be later maintained via pCP web interface.
• Do not use special characters.

Type or copy one of the following using your text editor (ie. Notepad++).

Maintained by piCorePlayer

# Maintained by piCorePlayer
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=staff
# Two Character Country Code
country=US
update_config=1

network={
	ssid="yourssid"
	psk="password"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	auth_alg=OPEN
}

Maintained by user

• User maintains by placing this on the boot disk to update.
• pCP will not modify in any way.
• Special Characters are allowed.

# Maintained by user
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=staff
# Two Character Country Code
country=US
update_config=1

network={
	ssid="Your SSID"
	psk="[email protected]"
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	auth_alg=OPEN
}

Step 3

[Save As] the file “DRIVE:\wpa_supplicant.conf” to the boot partition.

On a PC, DRIVE will be the drive letter for your SD card. (ie. F:)

Step 4

Eject SD card.

Step 5

Insert SD card into piCorePlayer.

Step 6

Apply power.

Using setup with keyboard and monitor #

Step 1

Login into your piCorePlayer.

login as: tc

password: piCore (default)

Step 2

Type setup.

Step 3

Click [Continue].

Step 4

Click [OK].

Step 5

Click [No].

Step 6

Click [On].

Step 7

Special Characters are not permitted.

Enter SSID.

Enter Password.

Enter Security.

Click [OK].

Step 8

Click [Yes].

Step 9

Click [Exit].

Step 10

Type pcp br.

More information #

• Setup Wifi
• Wifi does not work
• Example wpa_supplicant configuration file
• WPA Supplicant
• USB wifi adapters - historical information