losing ESSID

[moshe88]

Hey guys, facing a weird issue - hoping someone might be able to help.

The wireless network on my laptop is configured with a static IP. (not using nm)

When i take the laptop out of the range of my wireless router the essid is becoming off/any therefore when i'm back in range the connection is not reestablished and to re-enable the connection i gotta do "iwconfig wlan0 essid <essid name>"
otherwise there is no connection.

Anyone knows how to fix that? and make sure that essid stays configured unless i manually want to change it?

[ryokimball]

I don't remember how, but I think threw is a way to add a "preferred essid." I had this issue as well, but it disappeared when I started using wicd