Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu WiFi Setup

In this article I will show Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu WiFi Setup from command line.

Identify The WiFi Card Name In Raspberry Pi 4 Ubuntu

Raspberry Pi 4 has hardware WiFi card already onboard, but you can add other USB WiFi device.

First lets identify interfaces in system.

Information regarding network interfaces we can find in /sys/class/net file:

$ sudo ls /sys/class/net

eth0 lo wlan0

In our case we have 1 WiFi card and interface name is wlan0.

Edit the Netplan Configuration File

Open Netplan configuration file with any text editor (nano, vim):

$ sudo nano /etc/netplan/50-cloud-init.yaml

And add wifis section in config as shown in example:

# This file is generated from information provided by the datasource.  Changes
# to it will not persist across an instance reboot.  To disable cloud-init's
# network configuration capabilities, write a file
# /etc/cloud/cloud.cfg.d/99-disable-network-config.cfg with the following:
# network: {config: disabled}
network:
    ethernets:
        eth0:
            dhcp4: true
            optional: true
    wifis:
        wlan0:
            dhcp4: true
            access-points:
                "WIFI SSID":
                    password: "WiFi Password"
    version: 2

Then save and close file.

Apply New Netplan

To apply netplan in Ubuntu execute:

$ sudo netplan --debug try
$ sudo netplan --debug generate
$ sudo netplan --debug apply

And reboot with command:

$ sudo reboot

After reboot your Raspberry Pi with installed Ubuntu will automatically connect to your WiFi access point.

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