Beginners • Re: WiFi not working on Zero2W?

This is probably the known issue with Imager WiFi settings with 1.9.4 on Windows 11
https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-imager/issues/1067
So, we could use 1.8.5 to work around it.

Thanks, but I just tried it with 1.8.5 and still getting the same issue.
Brand new Pi Zero 2 W, can only get wifi to work in headless mode if I connect to a monitor and use raspi-config to set the wifi settings manually.

I'm looking for the true headless experience where it uses the wifi settings I specify in the imager and connect over SSH on first boot.

Statistics: Posted by markgodek — Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:51 am

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