How to connect wireless (static ip) via CLI Ubuntu

Published on Wednesday, April 17th 2013 at 6:32
Last updated on Tuesday, March 21st 2017 at 17:03

set your wifi and password. open ”/etc/network/interfaces” and add this:

…..

auto wlan0

iface wlan0 inet static

address 192.168.1.xx

netmask 255.255.255.0

gateway 192.168.1.1

dns-nameservers 8.8.8.8

wpa-ssid yourWirelessName

wpa-psk yourWirelessPasswd
then type in your lovely terminal ( ctrl+alt+T )

#ifconfig wlan0 up
#iwlist wlan0 scan
#iwconfig wlan0 essid YourESSIDName
#dhclient wlan0