Does not seem to work with RPi Zero W

[makhamehchi]

Has anybody tried this with RPi zero? Can it work with Pi Zero W?

Thanks

[hasiflo]

I can confirm your assumption. Doesn't work on my Pi Zero W.

[lbussy]

If all you are doing is using this to support headless on a new install (as opposed to moving it around) you can use something like this to set up the card initially (on Windows anyway.)

I drag a Zero around with me as well, so I'd like to see this addressed. If I get un-lazy I may have a look and make a PR if I can.

[hasiflo]

thank you very much @lbussy, but I'm searching for some project like this. Which creates a small webserver to enter the wifi-creds.

[makhamehchi]

Thank you @lbussy

[pherting]

Is there something new how to get it running on rpi zero w? :/ I love this solution and want to use it.. Can some help? Thanks!

[marcteyssier]

Hi, I use a rpi zero w and (I think) I found a solution. I remove the driver from the template https://github.com/sabhiram/raspberry-wifi-conf/blob/master/assets/etc/hostapd/hostapd.conf.template#L3 and force to reconfigure.

Bonus : I add on the /etc/sysctl.conf the line below to force ipv4

net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6=1

I restart the rpi and play npm start.

I found the wifi on my phone and I can use it.

[scottkuo]

I was able to resolve this by running

sudo systemctl unmask hostapd

The longer answer: Out of the box the Pi Zero has it masked, and you can check it by running

sudo service hostapd status

if that shows it is masked, run the following to enable it. The last 2 should be run by raspberry-wifi-conf already, but you can run it manually to see if its good.

sudo systemctl unmask hostapd
sudo systemctl enable hostapd
sudo systemctl start hostapd