I reinstalled a new copy of Batocera 32 and was sill getting internet status not connected.
Adding the following network setting to the batocera.conf file and adjusting accordingly had no effect on setting a Static IP. Ended up setting Static IP in modem for network (MAC) on Batocera PC and that worked.
wifi.ip=192.168.1.10
wifi.netmask=255.255.255.0
wifi.gateway=192.168.1.1
wifi.nameservers=8.8.8.8 8.8.4.4