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Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3<\/a> 3D printed chassis<\/a>, 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\u00a03 hours of messing around, he discovered that it conflicted with dhcpcd5. Removing this made WICD work again. He has posted about it on G+<\/a> but here are the instructions anyway:<\/p>\n

To install WICD:<\/p>\n

sudo apt-get install wicd-curses<\/pre>\n
To remove dhcpcd5:<\/p>\n
sudo apt-get remove dhcpcd5<\/pre>\n
Once you’ve done those two commands, WICD will be up and running again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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…<\/p>\n
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