Distro: FC 2.6.18.8
NdisWrapper: ndiswrapper-1.48
Wirless card: DWL-G122

I set up my wireless card and can connect to the internet. The problem is that that everytime I restart my machine I don't connect to the router automatically on starup. Instead I have to run:
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 key open s:key
/sbin/dhclient wlan0

After this I have no problems conneting.
It seems that everytime on restart the Security mode gets changed to "restricted". I have added:

MODE=Managed
SECURITY=Open

to my ifcfg-wlan0 file.

How can I can set it up so that I'm conneted on starup without having to type in the 2 commands.

Also, every once in a while, after the system has been running without the user, the screen gets locked, and the internet connection is dropped. When I run /sbin/iwconfig wlan0, I see a different essid, in that case once I execut:
/sbin/iwconfig wlan0 essid toonpoint

the connection comes back up.

Do you have NetworkManager running?

#service NetworkManager status

You can add those commands to /etc/rc.d/rc/local and they will be run at boot time. One thing you could try is run the network configuration tool (system-config-network) and try to get that tool to manage your wireless connection.

starting:
prompt> service networkmanager start

and setting up the conneciton using that fixed a few issues that i was facing
how do i set it up so that the service is started on startup?

I know there is a file somewhere in /etc where I can list the services that need to be started at boot time but can't remember that?

I can do it form the command line, but need to figure out how to do it in the init file.