Raspberry Pi 3 Wifi setup

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi 3 (Not that I needed another one as I already had two previous models laying around doing a whole lot of nothing.) and needed to get it connected to my network.

While I work with linux on a daily basis, it had been a while since I configured a linux device to connect to Wifi (Such as my original Raspberry Pi, and Pi2). Looking into this, it seems like it has gotten a whole lot easier over the years even with out the GUI.

In order to get the Raspberry Pi 3 connected you will just need to edit the following file. I started off with an install of Jessie Lite, and with this install I didn’t even have to go through the hassle of connecting via ethernet first and installing additional drivers which was a huge plus.

/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

1	/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf

At the bottom of that file you will add the following configuration settings, of course changing out the values to match your networking settings.

network={
   ssid="Network Name"
   psk="Wifi Password"
}

network={

ssid="Network Name"

psk="Wifi Password"

}

Once you have added this simply issue and ifdown and ifup command to wlan0 and you should be connected to your network via Wifi.

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