I am working with others and I need to connect the Raspberry Pi Zero to my WiFi then give it a static IP so that we can SSH into it. The others in the group have successfully done so.
I started by manually setting an IP for the Raspberry Pi through the router settings then I followed the steps in this YouTube video to give it the static IP, before having logged it into the network.
I realized this then followed the instructions in this article to try to add it through the system files (should have just gotten a mouse and used the GUI instead).
This did not work so I got a mouse and tried to use the GUI instead only to be met with "No Wirelesss LAN instances found", then I opened up the Wireless Internet settings then hit clear and apply (since the IP I tried to set there was in the fields and I wanted to try by removing the static IP settings just in case that was messing something up). Now when I go back to /etc/dhcpcd.conf, the file is empty (the file still exists, but its like everything inside of it has been deleted).
I have created a fresh instance of Raspberry Pi Os on a separate card, and that was able to see my WiFi. We have work stored on this Raspberry Pi Zero, so I am looking to restore the OS's ability to see WiFi and to give it a static IP. I am fairly new to Linux.
Does anyone have any advice, know caused /etc/dhcpcd.conf to become an empty file, and/or know how to get this OS instance be able to see WiFi again?
FWIW, I took pictures of the default /etc/dhcpcd.conf code and copied it character by character into the empty /etc/dhcpcd.conf file. This did not fix the Raspberry Pi’s inability to detect internet and the Raspberry Pi is still displaying "No Wireless LAN instances found".
When hovering over the network settings, it says:
Wlan0 not associated1 Answer
We have decided to do a fresh install of the OS on the Raspberry Pi, as that will fix the issue. We do not know what caused it nor do we know another solution.
