Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that WICD, his usual method of setting up wifi in a command-line environment, didn’t work. After 3 hours of messing around, he discovered that it conflicted with dhcpcd5. Removing this made WICD work again. He has posted about it on G+ but here are the instructions anyway:
To install WICD:
sudo apt-get install wicd-curses
To remove dhcpcd5:
sudo apt-get remove dhcpcd5
Once you’ve done those two commands, WICD will be up and running again.
Just tried this, but it seems like this didn’t quite work. Did you have to reboot it first? I noticed that even the lan no longer seems to work (at least on a RPi2)
Not tried it myself, but I’d imagine it WOULD need a reboot, yes. Try it again. If it doesn’t work, come back to me and I’ll have a word with Daniel who came up with it.
Great tip ! It worked for me (on Jessie) and finally I could connect to the wifi. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much
Thank you very much,
In fact with Raspbian Lite I had this same problem, (wicd was doing all steps but finally when getting IP, saying “Not connected”!)
Reboot needed effectively !