Hi All
I am starting out with my first Raspberry Pi, a Pi Zero W with a starter kit.
I have successfully used the supplied NOOBS microSD card to boot the pi and connect to my home wireless.
Must be a very old starter kit. NOOBS was dropped almost half a decade ago.
My problem is that when I try to setup a headless system (I plan to run pihole), the Pi Zero W no longer connects to my wireless.
I used Raspberry Pi Imager (v1.8.5 running on Linux Mint 22.1) to setup a new SD card with Raspberry Pi OS Lite (32-bit) and gave a username and password, my wireless settings, and enabled ssh.
The Pi boots successfully but I cannot see the pi on my network to ssh into it. However, I can login via a keyboard (for testing purposes, I have attached a screen and keyboard to the pi).
The first run setup method changed recently. If you're installing Trixie lite Imager 1.8.5 likely doesn't support the new method. It probably doesn't support Network Manager either.
Your options:
- Upgrade Imager to v2.x.x. I've no idea if that's possible on Mint.
- Use the legacy (Bookworm) image.
- As you have keyboard and monitor connected, configure WiFi via sudo raspi-config
Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Sat Dec 06, 2025 12:22 pm