Questions tagged [wifi]

Questions on the use of Wi-Fi (local area wireless computer networking technology). This tag is also used for generic "wlan" questions since they are commonly synonymous. Note shopping questions are off-topic.

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Raspberry Pi check WLan Connection with PHP [closed]

I'm currently working with a Pi (RPi Zero 2W) for the first time and would like to build a system for my Pi that works like this: I'm using the headless OS with 64 bits. When you start the Pi, it ...
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I Can't Connect To WiFi anymore

I followed some instructions from the raspberry pi site for updating my OS, upon reboot I can no longer connect to WiFi. My WiFi icon in the menu is saying there are "No wireless interfaces found....
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Raspberry Pi Zero W losing WiFi-Connection after AccessPoint restart

I have noticed, that raspberry Pi’s are predictable in losing their Wifi-Connection permanently after the accesspoint was turned off (power off). I have tried multiple raspberrys (10+) and three ...
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Raspberry Pi connect via WiFi, but not Ethernet

I setup Ubuntu Server on Raspberry Pi Model 3B using Raspberry Pi Imager for Windows. While configuring, I setup Wifi and it works smoothly. However, when I plug the device into ethernet it doesn't ...
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Headless Wi-Fi setup without the RPi Imager: bootfs/wpa_supplicant.conf not supported since Bookworm

From the docs: Previous versions of Raspberry Pi OS made use of a wpa_supplicant.conf file which could be placed into the boot folder to configure wireless network settings. This is no longer ...
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How can I convert my Raspberry Pi into a Wi-Fi network in order to receive a device configuration in a captive portal?

Initial Situation: Device: Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W with Raspberry Pi OS Lite (64-bit) I aim to establish a seamless Raspberry Pi configuration that transitions between two distinct modes: Setup Mode: In ...
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Accessing Raspberry Pi Hotspot via VNC

I have a headless Raspberry Pi 4 that I want to connect to via VNC in the absence of an external wifi or ethernet network. The Pi is being used as an antenna controller far away from civilisation, ...
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Connect to Raspberry pi through Wifi

I'm currently trying to do something that's quite hard for me. I have a raspberry pi zero w that's running an apache server. I want to be able to access my pi anywhere, even offline by connecting to ...
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Where does rpi-imager write Wifi information?

I tried the rpi-imager tool for the first time to write RPiOS to an SD card. I've always just used dd and then manually edited the cmdline and config files in boot/. I entered my WiFi information in ...
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VLAN and WLAN access point configuration. Bridging operation not supported. Looking for alternatives

I have an old WiFi appliance (air conditioner (AC)) that requires WiFi Protected Setup (WPS) to authenticate. I repurposed an old BT router with WPS, but this has died so I am attempting to configure ...
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I can't see my wifi usb adapter with ifconfig

I am using this raspberry Pi Architecture: armv7l Byte Order: Little Endian CPU(s): 4 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3 Thread(s) ...
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remote sensors for soil moisture

I just received my first Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+) and was thinking about starting my project journey with setting up some kind of soil moisture monitoring for the plants in my appartment ...
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Is it possible connect a Raspberry Pi Pico W to an EDUROAM Wifi (WPA2 authentication)?

Could someone help me? I'm a student at a university, and I'm trying to connect my Raspberry Pi Pico W to the Eduroam Wi-Fi using micropython code, but I'm having trouble. Is it better to use ESP32 to ...
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Adding a WiFi network with Python over bluetooth

I'm working on a project where a mobile app can find and pair with a headless raspberry pi running Pi OS (Debian Buster Port) over bluetooth, send it an ssid and password and it'll create and hop on ...
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Why is it so difficult to assign a static IP to Raspberry Pi? [closed]

After researching a lot on the internet, I found that there is no easy/standard/official way to assign a static IP to a Raspberry Pi. Why is so much tweaking needed in the config files even if I can ...
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RPi ssh connection issue through Android smartphone

Recently I installed headless Debian/Linux 11 (bullseye) aarch64 on my Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, and I'm having problems with SSH. The issue is that I use the German mobile operator Freenet and I can't ...
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What is the proper format of adding in multiple SSID's into wpa_supplicant.conf?

What is the proper format of adding in multiple SSID's? I have the following below. Do I add a comma like in JSON format? # For more configuration option please see: # https://w1.fi/cgit/...
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RPi4 doesn't connect automatically to WiFi

Scenario Raspberry Pi 4 Raspberry OS Lite (64 bit), bullseye Beside the integrated wlan0 it has an external adapter wlan1 My wlan network has been configured from Raspberry Pi Imager Starting from a ...
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Enable NetworkManager in buildroot

I compiled a Buildroot environment for RPi 3 B+. I have issues to enable NetworkManager. I selected BR2_PACKAGE_RPI_FIRMWARE and wlan0 is found: # nmcli dev status DEVICE TYPE STATE ...
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Will the Netgear LM1200 4G LTE Modem work with the Raspberry Pi 4?

I'm working on a robot whose processing is all done in the cloud, and the raspberry pi only sends/receives/executes orders. For this reason, a way to have internet anywhere is needed, and I figured ...
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WiFi switching to 5G and ignoring BSSID and freq_list

I have a TP-Link router with 2.4G and 5G bands with the same SSID ("Smart connect", as they call it here). My raspberry PI 4B is far from the router, and continually loses connection while ...
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Ubuntu Server 20.04 on Raspberry Pi 4 error: "kernel: ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_station: GET STA INFO failed, -52" How to fix?

I am running Ubuntu Server 20.04 on a Raspberry Pi 4. In my system logs I am getting the followng error: kernel: ieee80211 phy0: brcmf_cfg80211_get_station: GET STA INFO failed, -52 What does this ...
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Router Cannot See MAC Address of Devices Behind RPi Bridge

I followed Option 1 (Same Subnet) of this tutorial to turn my Raspberry Pi into a WiFi-to-Ethernet Bridge. It works great, but the router cannot see the device connected behind the bridge as being ...
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How to physically remove WiFi from 4B?

I am closely following Scott Young's training on working with deep focus. I have a new 8GB Raspberry Pi 4B along with an Samsung 870 SSD and NVMe to USB 3 converter - I am working just right. But as ...
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Raspberry Pi 4B: AP and Client

I ran this tutorial to setup my Raspberry Pi 4B as a WiFi-to-Eth Bridge, then ran this tutorial to add a virtual access point to allow me to SSH in afterwards. So far the bridge works and I can see ...
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can't create multiple aps with raspberry pi pico w (multiple ssids, one device)

Right this is driving me mad as I cant find any information on it online and AI has been no help at all. To put it simply, I need to make multiple networks with different ssids from a raspberry pi ...
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BalenaFin v1.0 wifi works on Stretch but not bullseye or buster

I have a balena fin v1.0 which used to run stretch. It used to perfectly show all available wifi (2.4G and 5G). However I was not able to have the same on the buster image when I got it back in 2020 ...
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Hostapd *just* for SSH

I have a WiFi-to-Ethernet bridge on my raspberry pi 4B that works great, but I’d like to be able to SSH into the unit when no network is detected. Is there a way to configure hostapd just so I can SSH?...
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Sharing WiFi Credentials with Raspberry Pi 4B over iPhone

I have a consistently working WiFi-to-Ethernet Bridge (using this tutorial), but would like the ability to easily share my network credentials with the Pi via my iPhone if my main WiFi network ever ...
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RaspAP - Wifi repeater

I have followed carrefully this : https://docs.raspap.com/repeater/ to configure my Rpi4 ( w/ latest OS 64 Lite ). wlan1 is configured w/ built-in wifi. wlan0 is related to USB Dongle ( TP Link WN725 ...
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i cant install a driver for rtl8812bu on the rasberrypi (please help)

for context i have a rasberrypi4 and Kernel: Linux 6.1.21-v8+ i have gotten myself a wifi dongle yet i have spent 2 days researching ways to get the driver installed with no luck if anyone knows of a ...
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raspberry pi shuts down a few seconds after boot, accelerated with LAN cable

Yesterday my raspberry pi 4 8GB was operating fine in a NAS setup where it was powered via the GPIO pins. I now took it out of the NAS case again and power it via USB-C. I use the official power ...
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How to connect Raspberry to two Wi-Fi different networks simultaneously

I want to connect (via Wi-Fi) my Raspberry in a electronic equipment, in which I can access (via TCP) to data sensors. After I received that data, this electronic equipment doesn't have an Internet ...
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Raspberry Pi 3B cannot connect to wifi

I was trying to connect to wifi from my RPI3 running Ubuntu 22 server. This is my conf file /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf Ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev ...
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Adding ad-hoc Wifi without breaking existing ethernet.. no bridge or routing

I have two Pi-4s, each with a unique static eth0 address; I use this connection for admin support.. They're running Buster. I want the two Pi's to communicate to each other via Wifi and UDP. No router ...
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Raspberry 3B+ Wifi not works anymore also with new OS/Sdcard.. broken chip? Please help!

EDIT: On suggestions of @milliways I'm editing the question since he says that all the stuff I posted is irrelevant, and I have to "start fresh". I installed again a new fresh image of ...
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Raspberry Pi 3B+ has erratic network connections (both Ethernet and Wifi)

Running a Raspberry Pi 3B+ for several months. The week or so, both the Ethernet and the Wifi started cutting out frequently for short periods. At first, I thought it was just dropping packets, but a ...
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I want to make a router with raspberry pie and extend the wifi

I'm going to use Raspberry Pi to create the same environment as the image above By the way, I'm trying to implement the router in the indicated part, but that part is using two wii modules, so one is ...
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WiFi Disabled in Bullseye After Long Idle

I have an RPI 2B with an RT5370 WiFi dongle running Bullseye. I'm not sure the interval, but if my device sits idle for a number of hours, the WiFi gets disabled. I can use the mouse and click on the ...
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Raspberry Pi not discoverable on WLAN

My Raspberry Pi4, running a standard Raspberry OS 32, can be found with its hostname on my LAN when it is connected with a cable. However, when connected only via WLAN, I cannot ping or ssh it with ...
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Missing P2P IE on RaspiOS Buster and Bullseye

I followed the steps documented here Connect Android smartphone with Wi-Fi Direct to a Raspberry Pi by @Ingo under 'Accepted Answer' to setup P2P on Raspberrypi and test it using an Android phone. ...
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Transmitting Serial data via Wi-Fi from Raspberry Pi to Wi-Fi Module

I previously built two separate projects for sending/receiving data between an Arduino and a Raspberry Pi 3. One transmitted via Bluetooth (HC-05 Module on the Arduino-side to the built-in BT module ...
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Headless install via WiFi ala IoT

I have searched for a solution that is often used in configuring of IoT devices. The flow is like this: The Raspberry Pi starts Is there a WiFi config ? If yes, boot with the WiFi credentials There ...
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How to program remotely on horribly slow Pi-2

I have an old RPi 2 B which I've loaded the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS Lite onto. I'd like to use it to make an IoT device using an TFT LCD screen to show information like the weather and my ...
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Use Raspberry Pi as wifi bridge multiple interfaces

I am building something that needs an ethernet connect and i want to use my raspberry pi 4 to take my wifi signal and convert it to ethernet. This has been done before but what has not been done is ...
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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W simultaneous AP and client

I have seen many tutorials on using a Raspberry Pi Zero W as a simultaneous WiFi AP and client such as this one on Hackaday and this blog post, but these tutorials don't seem to work on the Raspberry ...
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Wifi adapter not showing up in ifconfig and nmcli

Neither ifconfig -a nor nmcli dev show display a wifi adapter on my Raspberry Pi4B. After executing the following commands (which originally were listed in a related post (https://forums.raspberrypi....
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How to ssh into raspberry pi when wifi auto switches to 5GHz

My router uses Smart Connect which like mesh, allows the router's 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz bands to use the same wireless settings and switches over to the best connection in traffic. When my headless rpi is ...
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Wi-Fi range extension for Raspberry Pi Zero 2w

I am building a hobby glider that uses a Raspberry pi zero 2w as the companion computer. It is connected to a pixracer flight controller. I want to fly the glider outdoors and need to set up Wi-Fi ...
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ALFA AWUS036ACH Driver issues for Raspbian 11

I have a driver problem, and I'll save you some time by describing it this way: Computer: Raspberry Pi Zero 2w OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Latest Update: Mon 24 April (The update being: sudo ...
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