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No img for Raspberry Pi 0W

Open lindsayfowler opened this issue 2 years ago • 8 comments

It was suggested in this post to use dev20201026 for Raspberry Pi 0W.

I used this version and it hasn't worked yet, I'm not even sure if this file is correct as I haven't seen any confirmation in the wiki.

Would it be possible to label the img file that is compatible with Raspberry Pi0W by putting "RPi0W" somewhere in the file name? That would be a big help for ordinary folks like me. Thanks

lindsayfowler avatar Mar 11 '23 13:03 lindsayfowler

What issue are you having? Which PiZero do you have? On the bottom, just below the holes for the GPIO you will see a line of white text. It will begin "Raspberry Pi Zero" Please include the rest of that line here in your response. If you are using the Raspberry Pi Imager program, and have used it previously to include your settings, it breaks the motionEyeOS image. You will need to use Etcher or Win32DiskImager instead. If you connect a monitor to it, does it stop at the 'rainbow screen' or do you get a 'panic rebooting' message? Do yo include the wpa_supplicant.conf file?

starbasessd avatar Mar 11 '23 13:03 starbasessd

The Issue I had was it was getting stuck and trying to panic reboot. I had to make sure the file name was "wpa_supplicant.conf" and had the correct wifi credentials and it worked. Check here for more info.

acarrou avatar Apr 08 '23 22:04 acarrou

this didn't work for me. I included the wpa_supplicant.conf file, but it still does the same thing. It panic reboots because it can't find the wired network device.

alkimient avatar Jun 09 '23 18:06 alkimient

Give the text under the GPIO pins on the back of the Pi.

starbasessd avatar Jun 09 '23 18:06 starbasessd

Raspberry Pi Zero W V1.1 I don't think any of the Raspi Zeros have a wired network interface.

alkimient avatar Jun 09 '23 19:06 alkimient

No, they do not, unless you have a USB dongle type Ethernet adapter. Does it work with a RaspberryPiOS and the same wpa_supplicant.conf file? If not, then I would compare the file to a good one, like:


ctrl_interface=DIR=/var/run/wpa_supplicant GROUP=netdev update_config=1 country=US

network={ ssid="SSID" psk="P@sSW0Rd" }


country needs to be YOUR country 2 letter code ssid needs to be your Access Point name, it is case sensitive, and should NOT have special characters psk needs to be your password, it is case sensitive, and may have issues with some special characters

starbasessd avatar Jun 09 '23 19:06 starbasessd

Now it works. I had to put the wpa_supplicant.conf file in the root directory, not /boot/ I also converted the file encoding to ANSI, but I'm not sure if that was necessary.

alkimient avatar Jun 09 '23 19:06 alkimient

/root once booted is read-only. /boot is the first partition, read/writable by windows (fat32) and partition 2 /root and partition 3 /data are read-only ext4 partitions after first boot.

starbasessd avatar Jun 09 '23 19:06 starbasessd