So I followed instructions to properly install TC with GRUB on a a 10GB HDD.
Now, I'm using wpa_supplicant and its dependencies, along with firmware-iwlwifi to get my wireless PCMCIA card working. All of this works fine.
I have to install these from my USB drive (sda0), because my Ethernet port wont work (TC doesn't recognize eth0), so I used the Apps program to install locally (or tce-load -i).
When I reboot the laptop, even after backing up hda1/tce/, wpa_supplicant and its dependencies, including programs like iwconfig, are missing.
So I need two things:
1) Have locally installed packages stay on the hard drive after reboot. I don't know if it's loading into /tmp/
2) after this is fixed, I want to launch something like udhcpc or iwconfig to connect to an ESSID during boot time.