Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

[Timothy Murphy]

Jim wrote:

>> i may be looking at this wrong, tho i am curious if you 
have run
>> "iwconfig" to set up your wireless interface.

> yes, It showed ifcfg-wlan0 in my orignal message

I would run iwconfig or ifconfig
to see what the interface is called,
and then
  sudo ifconfig wlan0 up
if it is called wlan0.
Maybe also (if necessary)
  iwconfig wlan0 ssid SSID-NAME
  iwconfig wlan0 key YOUR-KEY
  iwconfig wlan0 mode RESTRICTED or OPEN