Beginners • Re: Trying to make my pi zero 2w into a wifi dongle

Any luck getting this to work? I'm pretty much at the same spot. Really hoping I don't have to get a ethernet usb adapter :/

Ethernet != WiFi.

Plus the ethernet gadget doesn't magically make a zero[2]W into a WiFi dongle. The best it can do is make the Pi into a router with one client - the machine on the other end of the USB cable.* But that isn't a feature of the ethernet gadget, it's OS level network configuration.

If that's what you actually want:

1. Install RPiOS Bookworm on the zero[2]W.
2. [shameless self promotion] See USB Ethernet Gadget A Beginner's Guide [/shameless self promotion]

*: Because a WiFi interface in client mode cannot be part of a network bridge.

Statistics: Posted by thagrol — Tue Mar 11, 2025 3:57 pm

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