Skip hooking it back up to all the peripherals and quickly add in Wi-Fi support from the command line.

Why Do I Want to Do This?

What Do I Need?

How to Setup Wi-Fi On Your Raspberry Pi via the Command Line

To that end,the USB Wi-Fi adapter section of the RPi wikiis very helpful.

the node is using WPA with TKIP shared-key encryption).

Connect to your Pi via SSH to access a remote terminal prompt.

We need to add on a very minor bit to unlock the Wi-Fi dongle.

If the file is empty, you’ve got the option to use this code to populate it.

When you’re done editing the file, press CTRL+X to save and exit the document.

Now is the time to unplug the Ethernet cable and plug in the Wi-Fi dongle.

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