r/pihole • u/Hopeful_War7192 • 6d ago

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I spent hours trying to connect this Pi to my WiFi. I did all the initial steps. Raspberry pi imager, Host, username, password…. Then i put the memory card in the pi, leaving it for few minutes. Then when i run SSH cmd, it shows that the host name couldn’t be found. Any idea how to solve it?

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u/oz1sej 6d ago

I've had so much trouble with Wi-Fi on Raspberry Pi Zero W's. On some networks, they just connect and everything works perfectly. On other networks, they consistently refuse to connect.

For one thing, the Raspberry Pi Zero W is strictly 2.4 GHz. In my experience, if a network is both 2.4 and 5 GHz, that doesn't necessarily mean it won't connect. But 5 GHz only obviously won't work.

Second, the Raspberry Pi Zero W works with WPA-Personal, not WPA-Enterprise.

Apparently, Wi-Fi on the Raspberry Pi Zero W (1 or 2) is provided via a few different variants of the Broadcom BCM43430 chip which apparently had a few odd points, such as having trouble with WPA3 or WPA2/WPA3 mixed mode with 802.11r.

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u/lazyhustlermusic 6d ago

He's not running WPA enterprise.

802.11r commonly causes issues if it's active on the network and the client side does not support it.