OK I seem to be having some problems with my wirless card. First off, I have the firmware installed and I CAN connect to wireless networks.

What's the problem then???

I can't seem to be able to choose which wireless network I want to log onto after booting my computer. The essid has to be in the wireless configure scripts at boot. I rarely have luck getting wireless working after my machine is on and I even properly restart the network scripts.

I'm in slackware 12.1
so to restart my network I just use:
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 wlan0_restart (or just restart)
the only files I need to edit are rc.inet1.conf and rc.wireless.conf
generally the message I get from restarting with DHCP enabled is "no carrier detected on wlan0"

my card does not seems to support
iwconfig wlan0 power off(on)
or
iwconfig wlan0 commit

I can't think of anything else that would actually reset the wireless card it self to refresh it with whatever data I want.

I also seem to have problems setting up wireless just be sending all the right commands on my own through the console

ifconfig waln0 up
iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever
etc.

is there any command that I'm missing that restarts the card it self and not just the scripts?

I can't seem to be able to choose which wireless network I want to log onto after booting my computer. The essid has to be in the wireless configure scripts at boot. I rarely have luck getting wireless working after my machine is on and I even properly restart the network scripts.

Hi,

I use the '/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf' file for both wired and wireless. Post (within codetags) the output for 'ifconfig -a' & '/etc/rc.inet1.conf' along with your '/etc/rc.d/rc.wireless.conf' (since you say you use it).