I have not used my pi for a long time, so perhaps this post should be in beginners as I have forgotten a great deal, so please forgive my stupidity.
I have a pi zero w and wanted to start from scratch with a latest OS and run headless as I usually have in the past..
I extracted 2025-12-04-raspios-trixie-armhf-lite.img.xz and want to run it on an 8GB card . I intended to add extras like the camera,, apache, php later.
I extracted the file to my card writer plugged into the usb on my Ubuntu machine and then copied a zero length file 'ssh' and a wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition on the card. I put the card into my pi zero w and expected it to mount and to be able to ssh into it from my PC but no luck
my wpa_supplicant is:
It does not appear in the connected devices o my router
Please can you tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I am hoping that once connected via ssh, that I will be able to tweak the setup with raspi-config?
I have a pi zero w and wanted to start from scratch with a latest OS and run headless as I usually have in the past..
I extracted 2025-12-04-raspios-trixie-armhf-lite.img.xz and want to run it on an 8GB card . I intended to add extras like the camera,, apache, php later.
I extracted the file to my card writer plugged into the usb on my Ubuntu machine and then copied a zero length file 'ssh' and a wpa_supplicant.conf to the boot partition on the card. I put the card into my pi zero w and expected it to mount and to be able to ssh into it from my PC but no luck
my wpa_supplicant is:
Code:
ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdevupdate_config=1network={ ssid="MY SSID" scan_ssid=1 psk="MY PASSWD" mode=0 proto=WPA2 key_mgmt=WPA-PSK pairwise=CCMP group=CCMP auth_alg=OPEN id_str="raspi" priority=5}Please can you tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I am hoping that once connected via ssh, that I will be able to tweak the setup with raspi-config?
Statistics: Posted by NickT — Tue Jan 20, 2026 2:14 pm — Replies 2 — Views 71