Comment 7 for bug 144239

I had the same problem, and had been working round by building and installing the rt61 driver from the rt2x00 project:

http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

however, with today's Gutsy 7.10 beta, I seem to have working wireless networking, even with the errors in dmesg as above, and without the manual driver build and install. My card is a Sitecom WL171