rt61 doesn't work in gutsy (worked in feisty)

It turns out that the rt61 has several open source drivers (in fact it appears to only have open source drivers). I tried several others including two different ones from SerialMonkey and one from Ralink themselves. I couldn't get any working with WPA.

It is annoying that Gutsy broke something that worked in Feisty. But I'll settle for you just telling me what card to buy in Frys that will just work well with Ubuntu. (I actually need at least two). I'm sure it would be useful to others as well.

This bug ist perhaps known under:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/139832
greetings

That ticket is for people who actually got the gutsy driver to work and then had it flake out on them. I couldn't even get the gutsy one to work at all, let alone have it work long enough to be flaky.

Ultimately the user I was helping decided that Linux sucked and went back to Windows, especially as I couldn't even tell them what replacement card to buy.

In the event that you still have access to this card it would be helpful if you were to include the following information in your bug report.

Please include as attachments the following additional information, if you have not already done so (please pay attention to lspci's additional options), as required by the Ubuntu Kernel Team:
1. Please include the output of the command 'uname -a' in your next response. It should be one, long line of text which includes the exact kernel version you're running, as well as the CPU architecture.
2. Please run the command 'dmesg > dmesg.log' and attach the resulting file 'dmesg.log' to this bug report.
3. Please run the command 'sudo lspci -vvnn > lspci-vvnn.log' and attach the resulting file 'lspci-vvnn.log' to this bug report.
For your reference, the full description of procedures for kernel-related bug reports is available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeamBugPolicies . Thanks in advance!

Additionally, the Hardy Heron Alpha series was recently released. Alpha2 and subsequent releases contain an updated version of the kernel. You can download and try the new Hardy Heron Alpha release from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/hardy/ . Please note that Alpha3 will be released within the next day or two so you many want to wait. You should be able to then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if this bug still exists or not and report back your results. General information regarding the release can also be found here: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ . Thanks!

The user took the card out of their machine and threw it away since they had no need for it under Windows (a linksys card worked fine) and gave up on Linux.

My preferred solution for this problem is to tell me what wireless PCI card I can buy at Frys that Ubuntu correctly/officially supports and will continue to do so for several releases.

Beginning with the Hardy Heron 8.04 development cycle, all open Ubuntu kernel bugs need to be reported against the "linux" kernel package. We are automatically migrating this bug to the new "linux" package. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!