I recently dug out a Pi Zero and a 3b and updated the OS. The 3b is fine but the Zero (in addition to being very, very slow) won't connect to WiFi.
I used the same settings for WLAN in Imager as for the 3b and they subsequently appear correctly in the settings for the "preconfigured" connection.
I tried setting up a new wireless connection but having done so I could find no way of selecting it and it wasn't selected on reboot.
I suspect it's not worth spending time on this, perhaps 512MB isn't viable, but I'd like to know if there is something simple I might be missing.
Please excuse a really basic question, but have you checked, by reference to the Revision Code embodied in the device, that it really is an RPi Zero W, and not the original network-free version of the RPi Zero hardware?
An RPi Zero may seem slow to you for interactive use, but it should still be a viable platform for 'IoT' style usage, logging data from sensors and the like. It will probably appear to perform better when used from the shell (command line) rather than from a Graphical Desktop or Browser.
Statistics: Posted by B.Goode — Fri Oct 18, 2024 1:26 pm