# Pirate Radio - PiZero W Can't connect to WIFI

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**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [January 29, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-pizero-w-cant-connect-to-wifi/7043 "2018-01-29T22:41:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![godparticle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@godparticle](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/godparticle)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2018, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-pizero-w-cant-connect-to-wifi/7043/1 "2018-01-29T22:41:18Z")

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I just got a Pirate Radio…and seem to be failing at the early steps. I’ve got a working image Raspbian Stretch Lite. Followed the instructions to put wpa\_supplicant.conf and ssh file into the boot folder on the SD Card. Booted the pi, and isn’t configuring the wifi or ssh. The pi boots ok’ish there are a number of fails including message about dhcpd, SSH keys fail to regenerate. If I connect a keyboard, tried to edit the wpa\_supplicant.conf in /etc/… however then refuses to update the file as it says its a system file, even editing with “sudo nano…”. In the past I’ve managed to connect Pi V3 to wifi no issues so at a bit of a loss. The only thing yet to try is to boot linux VM to mount the SD card and edit the files directly, which seems a bit of overkill!!! Any suggestions??? Thanks

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**Author:** ![gadgetoid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forums.pimoroni.com/gadgetoid/32/13_2.png) [@gadgetoid](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/gadgetoid)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 10:54am UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-pizero-w-cant-connect-to-wifi/7043/2 "2018-01-30T10:54:43Z")

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This is curious, `sudo nano /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf` should allow you to edit the file.

Be careful with your WiFi SSID- it’s case sensitive.

Could you grab a screenshot/phone camera snap of the errors you’re encountering?

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**Author:** ![godparticle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/22d042/32.png) [@godparticle](https://forums.pimoroni.com/u/godparticle)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2018, 10:52pm UTC](https://forums.pimoroni.com/t/pirate-radio-pizero-w-cant-connect-to-wifi/7043/3 "2018-01-30T22:52:10Z")

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Hi after some investigation and leaving the Pi running for a while, started to get some block errors.  
Tried a different SD card, and it booted no errors, copied wpa\_supplicant.conf to correct place and all fine.  
Turns out if it boots with a corrupt filesystem goes into read only hence none of the commands would work nor could I write any files.  
All sorted thanks