After I installed ndiswrapper, and the drivers but before the first reboot the system was using rt61 driver and everything worked fine, I was able to select a network and connect, use firefox and pop out the card all with no problems. but after first reboot the system decided to use alternate driver rt61pci. Because things started to go bad when the alternate driver was used I am inclined to think that it is the cause. I am not sure how to make the system use the one I installed and ignore the alternate...
to update the last post
ndiswrapper -l
rt61 : driver installed
device (1814:0301) present (alternate driver: rt61pci)
After I installed ndiswrapper, and the drivers but before the first reboot the system was using rt61 driver and everything worked fine, I was able to select a network and connect, use firefox and pop out the card all with no problems. but after first reboot the system decided to use alternate driver rt61pci. Because things started to go bad when the alternate driver was used I am inclined to think that it is the cause. I am not sure how to make the system use the one I installed and ignore the alternate...