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It worked with wicd and an older Version of Zenwalk.
Now I switched to Salix 13.0.1 and it dosn't any more.
Sometimes I can't even scan, but after modprobe -r rt61pci and then modprobe rt61pci I can scan, but it never connects.

Some parts from dmesg, I don't know if they are important.
...
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic"
...
cfg80211: Using static regulatory domain info
cfg80211: Regulatory domain: US
(start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
(2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2700 mBm)
(5170000 KHz - 5190000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
(5190000 KHz - 5210000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
(5210000 KHz - 5230000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
(5230000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 2300 mBm)
(5735000 KHz - 5835000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (600 mBi, 3000 mBm)
cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
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rt61pci 0000:02:0b.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKF] -> GSI 9 (level, low) -> IRQ 9
wmaster0 (rt61pci): not using net_device_ops yet
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel'
wlan0 (rt61pci): not using net_device_ops yet
Registered led device: rt61pci-phy0:radio
Registered led device: rt61pci-phy0:assoc
...

By the way I am in EU.

And this is what lsmod is giving me:

odule Size Used by
sg 24912 0
snd_seq_dummy 2464 0
snd_seq_oss 29792 0
snd_seq_midi_event 5980 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 47984 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_pcm_oss 37728 0
snd_mixer_oss 14300 2 snd_pcm_oss
ipv6 243508 16
lp 9316 0
fuse 54008 3
ppdev 7200 0
snd_cs4232 11956 0
rt61pci 19872 0
snd_wavefront 51444 0
nvidia 4703828 22
rt2x00pci 7004 1 rt61pci
rt2x00lib 26972 2 rt61pci,rt2x00pci
snd_cs46xx 78856 2
snd_wss_lib 23996 2 snd_cs4232,snd_wavefront
snd_ac97_codec 100128 1 snd_cs46xx
snd_opl3_lib 9212 2 snd_cs4232,snd_wavefront
snd_hwdep 6816 2 snd_wavefront,snd_opl3_lib
rfkill 9296 2 rt2x00lib
snd_mpu401_uart 6524 2 snd_cs4232,snd_wavefront
led_class 3392 1 rt2x00lib
ac97_bus 1372 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_rawmidi 19040 3 snd_wavefront,snd_cs46xx,snd_mpu401_uart
snd_pcm 68128 4 snd_pcm_oss,snd_cs46xx,snd_wss_lib,snd_ac97_codec
e100 30660 0
mac80211 155588 2 rt2x00pci,rt2x00lib
snd_seq_device 6088 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_opl3_lib,snd_rawmidi
snd_timer 19108 4 snd_seq,snd_wss_lib,snd_opl3_lib,snd_pcm
cfg80211 36468 2 rt2x00lib,mac80211
mii 4380 1 e100
snd 50820 18 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_cs4232,snd_wavefront,snd_cs46xx,snd_wss_lib,snd_ac97_codec,snd_opl3_lib,snd_hwdep,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_seq_device,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 7972 3 snd_cs46xx,snd_wss_lib,snd_pcm
soundcore 5824 2 snd
eeprom_93cx6 1692 1 rt61pci
ns558 4156 0
intel_agp 25628 1
parport_pc 24036 1
rtc_cmos 10124 0
gameport 9960 3 snd_cs46xx,ns558
thermal 15096 0
parport 30700 3 lp,ppdev,parport_pc
rtc_core 15992 1 rtc_cmos
psmouse 41676 0
agpgart 29256 2 nvidia,intel_agp
processor 38600 1 thermal
shpchp 31888 0
rtc_lib 2332 1 rtc_core
serio_raw 5024 0
i2c_i801 8784 0
thermal_sys 10756 2 thermal,processor
hwmon 2104 1 thermal_sys
evdev 9152 6
container 3132 0
button 5708 0

Maybe a problem with the module included in the 2.6.29.6 kernel? You could try the 2.6.30.5 kernel in slackware 13.0 testing: ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/slackware/s ... -2.6.30.5/
or try to build your own.

I'm guessing you have the rt61-firmware package installed.

I found today in Zenwalk for some problems whit totem that gstreamer-gnolin could give problems to wireless connections. Maybe only whit some drivers. Today after installing it my connection was gone, as I unnistall and install again a bunch of stuff maybe I'm wrong but this is what I think.

I do have the firmware installed.

By internet search I found a page, that is telling me how to change the region.
http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developer ... atory/CRDA

I tried to do so:

root@pc-alt:~# iw reg set EU
iw: error while loading shared libraries: libnl.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Could it be, that I need this library?
Where do I find it?

It's in the libnl package (slapt-get -i libnl).
I was missing it too, but wireless has been working though. Therefore I doubt that it'll fix your problems, but try anway.

I can only install the kernel, but not the modules and firmware:

root@pc-alt:~# installpkg kernel-modules-smp-2.6.30.5_smp-i686-1_testing.txz
Skipping package kernel-modules-smp-2.6.30.5_smp-i686-1_testing (package with same base name is already installed)...

That's because as the error says a package with the same name is already installed. Try "upgradepkg" instead.