Most of the steps are probably almost the same on other operating systems.

Note 1: I used a Mac when going through the process. This article will get you up and running with a Raspberry Pi, connected to your wifi network and accessible over ssh, without ever needing to connect anything to it, besides power. I wrote this article mainly for myself so i can reproduce the steps, but figured this is probably useful to others. This means it can run and connect to the internet without having an ethernet cable connected to it. The Raspberry Pi 3 and the recently introduced Raspberry Pi Zero W have an onboard wifi chip. You can now connect: ssh However, this won't provide your raspberry pi with internet access.Once in a while i want to setup a new Raspberry Pi without the need to connect it to a display, keyboard or ethernet cable.Unmount the SD card and insert it into your raspberry pi zero. Insert the SD card into your computer and append the following lines to the etc/nf on the storage partition: # Set a static ip for when connected to USB Use this ip to connect: ssh If your computer has internet access, your raspberry pi should now have internet access as well. Run tail /var/log/syslog and look for a line like (the ip should be the same as in the previous line, except for the bold part):ĭnsmasq-dhcp: DHCPACK(enp0s20f0u1) 10.42.0. Run ifconfig and check for a line like (the bold number must be 1): Set the IPv4 method to 'shared to other computers'.When it is recognized as a new network connection, open your network configuration.

Connect your raspberry pi to your computer.I have no idea why this happens or how to fix it, but you can work around it. For some reason the zeroconf/avahi/bonjour/link-local/whatever-you-call-it isn't working.

Raspberry pi zero w headless setup mac