How To Connect Raspberry Pi To Laptop Via WiFi
1 min readDec 12, 2020
Here are the steps to share your PC’s wireless Internet connection with your RPi:
- Connect the Pi to your computer’s Ethernet port with a standard Ethernet cable
- Go to “Network Connections” on your Windows PC and select “Wireless Network Connection.
- Right-click and select Properties. Under the “Internet Connection Sharing” tab, select both checkboxes.
- Reboot your computer. This step is very important.
- Your Pi will now obtain an IP address from your computer and be able to access the Internet through your computer.
- If you need to find the Pi’s IP address for SSH or for remote login from your PC, run the command “ping raspberrypi”, where “raspberrypi” is the hostname of your RPi. Note that your RPi must have samba running on it for the ping command to work.
That’s it, folks! Also, you can connect your Raspberry Pi via Ethernet cable as I’ve already described here: