Troubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi Zero W not Finding any Wifi Networks

Hi,

I've recently dug out a Pi Zero W out of a drawer, where it probably laid for four years at least. I created a boot image using the official imager and set all the networking/ssh config as I'd hoped I could just use it without ever connecting physical peripherals to it.

My troubles began.

It boots fine to a desktop, the wifi options are available (in the taskbar it shows two blue arrows in opposite directions) but no networks are there to be connected to. The default connection set during the imaging process also doesn't connect. I've validated this both from my router's control panel as well as the various utilities I could think of (nmcli, ip link, the GUI).

My country code is set to DE.

Code:

rfkill list

shows a wlan device called phy.


iwlist also doesn't show anything.

Code:

$ iwlist wlan0 scanwlan0No scan results

Code:

dmesg | grep wlan0 

Returns nothing

I'm pretty much out of ideas and have seemingly already looked at every related forum post, do you have any ideas?

Statistics: Posted by kip_the_elder — Sun Oct 06, 2024 10:00 am