Raspberry pi usb wifi without hub

Is there any way to do this? Then, turn off your Pi. Plug in your wifi dongle and turn the Pi on again. It should connect to the network. Sign up to join this community. The best answers are voted up and rise to the top. Stack Overflow for Teams — Collaborate and share knowledge with a private group. Create a free Team What is Teams?

Learn more. How can you setup wifi without a usb hub on a Pi Zero? Ask Question. Asked 6 years ago. Active 6 years ago. Viewed 2k times. Improve this question. Merlin04 Merlin04 4 4 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. From eLinux. Jump to: navigation , search. Raspberry Pi. Screens - Cases - Other Peripherals Keyboard, mouse, hub, wifi Category : RaspberryPi. Navigation menu Personal tools Log in Request account. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read View source View history.

Where else to find us Twitter elinux elinux on Libera. Chat Facebook elinux. This page was last edited on 29 September , at Privacy policy About eLinux. MAC mfr. Wheezy preinstalled, but stops after hours even with USB workarounds. Rev 2. Wheezy preinstalled. At this stage I was able to use ifconfig to confirm that a new wlan0 network interface was recognised, however it still required configuration.

I tried several conf file approaches without success, in the end finding that the easiest way to enter the appropriate settings was by using wicd. Those of you that are on the ball will have realised that I was still without a working internet connection, apt-get was clearly going to need some help. I used the —print-uris option to get a list of the files that needed to be downloaded and save them to a file:. I then put the card back into my other machine; I navigated to the home directory and opened wicduris.

Now the trick I used here relies on the fact that whenever apt-get downloads a package it stores a copy in its cache for later use; I subverted this behaviour by manually downloading the required packages directly into its cache such that it would find them and install from these packages automatically.

Swapping the card back into the Raspberry Pi allowed me to to boot it and install wicd in the usual manner without worrying about the lack of connectivity:. For some unknown reason, the command line interface to wicd was unable to detect any networks; I worked around this easily enough by starting an X session and using the graphical interface.

I entered all the parameters into the boxes and it connected successfully; these settings persist after reboot, even without having to start an X session. Either way, cool hack, and the final device looks pretty good! This is all well and good, but for many Pi owners it would be far simpler to buy an Edimax EWUn nano wireless dongle.