Jul 11, 2015
Wireless setup through the command line
1. Find your wifi adapater: iw dev
2. Check device status: ip link show wlan0
3. Bring up wifi interface: ip link set wlan0 up
4. Check connection status: iw wlan0 link
5. Scan for wifi-network: iw wlan0 scan
6. Generate a wpa/wpa2 configuration with wpa_supplicant: wpa_passphrase SSID PASSPHRASE > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
7. Connect to wpa/wpa2 wifi network: wpa_supplicant -B -D wext -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
8. Verify connection: iw wlan0 link
9. Get DHCP: dhclient wlan0
10. Confirm: ip addr show wlan0 or ifconfig wlan0
11. Confirm default routing rule: ip route show
12. Test connectivity. Ping.