Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

[Jim]

On 12/30/2012 05:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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
>
>
It won't accept the key and the mode.   It will only accept Mode as 
Managed.  the key is the one in the router, under Wireless Security .

The problem is the wireless network is not starting.  It cannot find the 
Gateway 192.168.1.1 , and that is the correct setting

How do you start the wireless network ?

Remember I'm not using NetworkManager