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Cannot find Pi Zero W on wireless network

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To enable Wifi on the Pi Zero you need to create a file called wpa_supplicant.conf at the root of the SD card containing the details of your network name and password.

This guide goes through all the steps needed

https://desertbot.io/blog/headless-pi-zero-w-wifi-setup-windows

I've been attempting to follow the guide on the raspberry pi ad blocker, and I've been using a raspberry pi zero w trying to get it to run raspbian buster lite headless, and the light goes on, and in the ssh file I included the ssid and the psk, which should be sufficient according to the guides I followed, I think I have a wpa 2 psk style wifi to the best of my understanding, but this is my first time doing something with a raspberry Pi. I couldn't find the raspberry pi on angry scanner or fing on my phone, any advice for how to set this up?  I attempted to set it up earlier with the full raspbian buster with desktop and programs but it got stuck at raspi-config-service so I formatted my SD and went back to lite. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you for your time!

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To enable Wifi on the Pi Zero you need to create a file called wpa_supplicant.conf at the root of the SD card containing the details of your network name and password.

This guide goes through all the steps needed

https://desertbot.io/blog/headless-pi-zero-w-wifi-setup-windows

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