So far no luck getting the Raspberry Pi to work properly with WiFi, without some bizarre glitches.
After upgrading Raspberry Pi OS today per "apt update && apt upgrade" SUDDENLY WiFi just started working. Out of nowhere I had an IP on my WiFi interface and could SSH into the damned thing.
A reboot with no network cable attached led to, again, a failure to connect to the WiFi.
Then using newest version of the imager from snap-store, I re-written the SD-Card, making sure to enable WiFi and SSH.
After the first initial boot, the Raspberry Pi had WiFi without attaching the network cable first. Success? Or so I thought.
Upon connecting the external HDD per USB 3.0 port, WiFi was no longer there.
I tried connecting the network cable again and SSH into the Pi worked. The WiFi interface was still showing the same iP address from before, but nothing worked, not even ping.
Reboot - no IP address on WiFi interface!
How can such problems still exist in the revision 5 of a popular device?
I cannot overstate my frustration with this situation and Raspberry Pi as a whole. I feel tricked by false advertising and guilty of buying another Raspberry Pi again. I should have gotten some other single-board computer and used a USB dongle, which I probably will end up doing with this thing as well!
Edit:
to clarify the scope of the problem:
Disconnect the HDD, reboot -> WiFi is on
Connect the HDD -> WiFi is off this same instant
Re-connecting to WiFi once the HDD is connected is impossible. Same old error, "secrets required but none provided".
Wired connection always works, whatever is connected to the USB ports
This is not expected, nor acceptable.
After upgrading Raspberry Pi OS today per "apt update && apt upgrade" SUDDENLY WiFi just started working. Out of nowhere I had an IP on my WiFi interface and could SSH into the damned thing.
A reboot with no network cable attached led to, again, a failure to connect to the WiFi.
Then using newest version of the imager from snap-store, I re-written the SD-Card, making sure to enable WiFi and SSH.
After the first initial boot, the Raspberry Pi had WiFi without attaching the network cable first. Success? Or so I thought.
Upon connecting the external HDD per USB 3.0 port, WiFi was no longer there.
I tried connecting the network cable again and SSH into the Pi worked. The WiFi interface was still showing the same iP address from before, but nothing worked, not even ping.
Reboot - no IP address on WiFi interface!
Code:
$ nmcli deviceeth0 ethernet connected Wired connection 1 lo loopback connected (externally) lo wlan0 wifi disconnected -- p2p-dev-wlan0 wifi-p2p disconnected -- Code:
$ nmcli cNAME UUID TYPE DEVICE Wired connection 1 [my-long-uuidmy-long-uuidmy-long-uuid] ethernet eth0 lo [my-long-uuidmy-long-uuidmy-long-uuid] loopback lo preconfigured [my-long-uuidmy-long-uuidmy-long-uuid] wifi -- I cannot overstate my frustration with this situation and Raspberry Pi as a whole. I feel tricked by false advertising and guilty of buying another Raspberry Pi again. I should have gotten some other single-board computer and used a USB dongle, which I probably will end up doing with this thing as well!
Edit:
to clarify the scope of the problem:
Disconnect the HDD, reboot -> WiFi is on
Connect the HDD -> WiFi is off this same instant
Re-connecting to WiFi once the HDD is connected is impossible. Same old error, "secrets required but none provided".
Wired connection always works, whatever is connected to the USB ports
This is not expected, nor acceptable.
Statistics: Posted by Igorevich — Fri Jun 20, 2025 9:35 am