This tutorial assumes you have your Pi mostly set up and have followed our "Raspberry Pi as Wifi Access Point" tutorial

Please follow these tutorials in order to

• Install the OS onto your SD card
  If you bought an SD card with Raspbian pre-burned on you can skip this step
• Boot the Pi and log into it
  Don't forget to change the default password for the 'pi' acccount!!!

Make sure to expand the filesystem to the entire disk or you may run out of space (this is done by default now on Raspbian when you boot it)

However, don't configure WiFi - you can log in over Ethernet or Serial console

• Set up and test the Ethernet connection - in general this means just plug into Ethernet before booting
  Check that you can ssh to, or ping from the Raspberry Pi
• For WiFi, you do not need to configure anything. and that your Wifi adapter is recognized and shows up as wlan0 when you run ifconfig wlan0

• Connect with a USB console cable (optional)
  Handy for debugging especially when connecting to the access point hosted by the Pi

When done you should have a Pi that is booting Raspbian, has working Ethernet, and you can connect to with a USB console cable and log into the Pi via the command line interface.

• Then follow our Pi-as-Access-Point tutorial to set up the Pi as a wifi access point router.

When done you should be able to connect to the Pi as a WiFi access point and connect to the internet through it.

It is possible to do this tutorial via ssh on the Ethernet port or using a console cable.

If using a console cable, even though the diagram on the last step shows powering the Pi via the USB console cable (red wire) we suggest not connecting the red wire and instead powering from the wall adapter. Keep the black, white and green cables connected as is.