This walkthrough is for a quick client machine network setup by hand. The examples are for a fictive client machine with
the following client and network values:
IP
192.168.0.10
netmask
255.255.255.0
broadcast
192.168.0.255
gateway
192.168.0.10
Newer versions of udev no longer use the traditional Linux naming scheme for interfaces with eth0, wlan0, etc.
To use the traditional naming scheme, add to the kernel cmdline.
setting up the network device with ip
ip addr add 192.168.0.10/255.255.255.0 wlan0
ip link set wlan0 up
ip route add default via 192.168.0.10
alternative: setting up the network device with ifconfig