Enabling Wireless network without NetworkManager

[R. G. Newbury]

> 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

Use wicd instead of NM.
The network service apparently will *never* start a wireless device. It 
may have once upon a time, but not now. (I can't remember if it ever 
did, or not)

Yum install wicd* should install what you need, then
systemctl enable wicd.service
systemctl start wicd.service

Geoff