How to connect to a wifi network on ubuntu server 17.04?

[Ofir aviel]

hi,

i have a computer that runs Ubuntu server 17.04, and a wifi expedition card.

after i searched on google i found this command

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sudo iwconfig wlp1s0 essid "nameofap"

but after i did

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sudo iwconfig wlp1s0 key password

its says

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Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :

                         invalid argument "password".

can anyone help me with this?

[dmaes]

If you will always be connecting to the same router add this to /etc/network/interfaces and reboot, restart networking service or use sudo ifup -v <wifi_interface_name>

auto <wifi_interface_name>
iface <wifi_interface_name> inet dhcp
wpa-ssid <ssid>
wpa-psk <password>

else, use network-manager

sudo apt-get install network-manager
nmcli dev wifi list
nmcli dev wifi connect <ssid> password <password>

or wicd if you don't want the unneeded GUI-packages, I just have never tried it myself.

(you can also use ssh -X and nm-applet to control your servers wifi from another pc running linux with a DE or WM)

[Ofir aviel]

12 hours ago, 101dmrs said:

If you will always be connecting to the same router add this to /etc/network/interfaces and reboot, restart networking service or use sudo ifup -v <wifi_interface_name>

auto <wifi_interface_name>
iface <wifi_interface_name> inet dhcp
wpa-ssid <ssid>
wpa-psk <password>

else, use network-manager

sudo apt-get install network-manager
nmcli dev wifi list
nmcli dev wifi connect <ssid> password <password>

or wicd if you don't want the unneeded GUI-packages, I just have never tried it myself.

(you can also use ssh -X and nm-applet to control your servers wifi from another pc running linux with a DE or WM)

ok, thank you, will go to try it