# How to set up Raspberry Pi with wi-fi connection

**URL:** <https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [August 7, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440 "2021-08-07T11:45:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Petr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/petr/32/967_2.png) [@Petr](https://community.umbrel.com/u/Petr)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 11:45am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440/1 "2021-08-07T11:45:00Z")

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Hi everyone,

I am following the guide on your site “get up and running in 5 minutes” with the goal to set up a lightning channel. I followed your steps but got stuck with the ether cabel - I currently don’t have access to my router so I would want to set up the connection using wi-fi.

Could somebody please give instruction how could I achieve it? I have already the Umbrel OS on the SD card and everything ready except that I obviously can’t access the [https://umbrel.local](https://umbrel.local) site. I tried to follow up instructions I found here: [https://desertbot.io/blog/headless-raspberry-pi-4-ssh-wifi-setup](https://desertbot.io/blog/headless-raspberry-pi-4-ssh-wifi-setup) but this didn’t help and I couldn’t connect to the umbrel.local.

Thanks 🙂

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**Author:** ![cMacr0](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/cmacr0/32/620_2.png) [@cMacr0](https://community.umbrel.com/u/cMacr0)\
**Post date:** [August 7, 2021, 4:12pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440/2 "2021-08-07T16:12:52Z")

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Hi Petr,

Follow the instructions in the following post to configure for wi-fi access:

> <https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-os/issues/141>
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> Hi there,
> I am currently running a raspiblitz with wifi and would like to switc…h to Umbrel to try it out. But before I kill my current node, I 'd like to know if it supports wifi. If yes, are there any insturctions on how to do the installation with wifi?
> If no, I'd like to see that feature added.
> 
> Thanks for the great work you are doing!

Create the wpa\_supplicant.conf file with the relevant info: country, SSID, password

Put that file in the root folder of your RPi SD card after flashing.

Kind regards,  
CM

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**Author:** ![muffiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71c47a/32.png) [@muffiz](https://community.umbrel.com/u/muffiz)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2024, 6:33pm UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440/3 "2024-04-21T18:33:02Z")

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There are two partitions BOOT-A and CONFIG which one should I flash to?

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**Author:** ![cabeoc](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/community.umbrel.com/cabeoc/32/3047_2.png) [@cabeoc](https://community.umbrel.com/u/cabeoc)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://community.umbrel.com/t/how-to-set-up-raspberry-pi-with-wi-fi-connection/2440/4 "2024-06-25T03:57:02Z")

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Dang old post, but wanted to let you know that just recently Wi-Fi is now becoming supported, configurable from the Umbrel Home web page. May need to connect via Ethernet to first set it up, though.