Raspberry Pi with integrated wifi chip - Pi 3 or Pi Zero W.This guide may also work for the Jessie image with the Pixel desktop, however, i did not verify this. Note 2: I am using the Raspbian Jessie Lite image which does not have any graphical interface besides the commandline. Most of the steps are probably almost the same on other operating systems. Note 1: I used a Mac when going through the process. This article will get you up and running with a Raspberry Pi, connected to your wifi network and accessible over ssh, without ever needing to connect anything to it, besides power.

I wrote this article mainly for myself so i can reproduce the steps, but figured this is probably useful to others. This means it can run and connect to the internet without having an ethernet cable connected to it. The Raspberry Pi 3 and the recently introduced Raspberry Pi Zero W have an onboard wifi chip. Once in a while i want to setup a new Raspberry Pi without the need to connect it to a display, keyboard or ethernet cable.

Raspberry pi zero wifi setup