I recently got R-PI Zero W and MicroSD with Noobs 2.0 https://www.adafruit.com/product/3259 on it from adafruit. I put SD card in and connected the PI to the 5V/2A power source. Once it booted I tried to configure WiFi. When I click on WiFi icon it shows message "No wireless interfaces found":
If I open Network Preferences I see all fields greyed out for both "interface" and "SSID" options:
Then I used SD card from my PI 3 where I have WiFi configured and working but got the same behavior. Even when I set WiFi configurations in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file manually, I still cannot get any WiFi network to show up in the taskbar.
The "ifconfig" gives me only loopback network.
Also I cannot seem to get Bluetooth to work. Does this mean that WiFi and Bluetooth hardware has faulted?
If that's the case, how can I exchange my PI Zero W for a fully operational one considering that it's been less than 30 days since I purchased the product?
Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
Try downloading the latest version of the Raspbian OS and run that. NOOBS has had an issue with the wifi on the Zero W.
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
How about this part that I mentioned:
If the issue was in software, wouldn't my SD card from PI 3 work on PI Zero W?Then I used SD card from my PI 3 where I have WiFi configured and working but got the same behavior. Even when I set WiFi configurations in /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf file manually, I still cannot get any WiFi network to show up in the taskbar.
The "ifconfig" gives me only loopback network.
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
Is your SD card the latest version of the OS?
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
How do I verify whether the OS I have on my SD is the latest?
Here is the output from $ cat /etc/os-release
Output of command $ uname -a
Assuming that the OS I have on SD is not the latest. Is it expected that SD with OS that works fine on PI 3 may have WiFi and Bluetooth non-operational when used with PI Zero W?
Here is the output from $ cat /etc/os-release
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PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 8 (jessie)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="8"
VERSION="8 (jessie)"
ID=raspbian
ID_LIKE=debian
HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/"
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Linux raspberrypi 4.1.19+ #858 Tue Mar 15 2016 armv6l GNU/Linux
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
yeah you may need to update to stretch. if you have internet (using an Ethernet adapter) you can, from the command line, run "sudo apt-get update" "sudo apt-get upgrade" and it'll do it for you. Or you can grab the latest NooBs from raspberrypi.org
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Re: Raspberry PI Zero W - No wireless interfaces found
I formatted SD card and installed latest NOOBS image on it https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/noobs/. After that I was able to install latest RASPBIAN on it and connect to Bluetooth and WiFi.
Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the help!
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