
Otherwise, skip this section.Īmend /etc/network/interfaces to contain only the following: If you got any errors saying that wicd couldn't start then you've probably got network-manager installed. Note: when prompted if you want to add any users to the netdev group, add your local user account (this is the one you specified during installation). $ sudo apt-get install wicd-cli wicd-curses This is the easiest way to install wicd and the following line will install all the required packages in one go.

If you can get a temporary wired internet connection to the machine, you can grab the packages from the repositories. Open a terminal window on your Raspbian, or access the machine with console cable (it is not recommended to install **wicd **using ssh, as you may loose connection at some point). What I'm going to show is how to install wicd, a wireless daemon that runs on your system and provides easy wireless configuration.

The tool works in desktop environment as well as on a headless machine.

This tutorial is prepared for Raspbian distro, but will also work on most Linux distributions. There are a few ways to get wireless working on your RPi, but as far as I can work out, this is the easiest.
