Using wpa_supplicant.conf file on the emonSD boot partition

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Just be sure to thoroughly test it. This is a quote from the link Glyn provided, about ext2fsd.

“While you can theoretically enable support for writing to Linux partitions, I haven’t tested this. I’d be worried about this option, myself—a lot can go wrong. Read-only support is fine, though, and doesn’t carry a risk of messing anything up.”

Which I would agree with, just because you CAN write to a linux file from a windows utility, it doesn’t mean the file will still be 100% intact from linux’s perspective. We would hope so though…

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Yes I know it.

So the best option is to symlink to boot, thats right?

Any final recommendation?

Thanks.

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Try both and go with the one that works best or you are most comfortable with. Personally I would hope using the symlink would work as I do not like using thousands of different utilities for various different jobs, I try to keep things as simple, generic and clean as possible.

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It works very very well!!!

This feature must be introduced STANDARD in SD image. It is very easy to work with Raspberry PI ZERO like this.

You are the best!

Thanks!

I only have to advice one thing: If you are starting with STANDARD SD image you must to boot first to create automatically /data/wpa_supplicant.conf AFTER that you can symlink to boot/wifi.conf

THANKS AGAIN GUYS

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Thank you for letting us know.

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Good to hear, for the benefit of anyone else looking at this thread please could you post the steps you used to make this work.

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The steps are:

1- Burn a standard SD image
2- Run a standard SD image (it will create wpa_supplicant.conf file in /data folder)
3- Symplink /data/wpa_supplicant to boot/wifi.conf with the following lines (always with -rw in ssh or linux console)

sudo mv /home/pi/data/wpa_supplicant.conf /boot/wifi.conf
sudo ln -s /boot/wifi.conf /home/pi/data/wpa_supplicant.conf

4- Switch off (sudo shutdown now)
5- Save the “WIFI.CONF image” to have this to copy to other SD
6- Introduce “WIFI CONF image SD” in windows, Linux or Mac and change wifi.conf with Notepad++. Use Notepad++ to not change the format of .conf file.

network={
ssid= “networkSSID”
psk=“password”
}

7- Introduce SD in the favourite Raspberry Pi with WIFI device and … HURRAY!!!

Thanks Paul and Glyn for your amazing support.

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