Comment 303 for bug 204996

Just wanted to had my 2 pennies on the subject.
Back in the time of Edgy, I decided to buy a WiFi card. My choice went for the RaLink RT61 chipset (it's an MSI card). I had to install manually the driver for it, so it could work on Edgy. Then came Feisty and (if I recall properly) right after upgrading I could still use my desktop in WiFi. Then came a kernel upgrade and suddenly I had frequent complete crash, just like it is report here. Impossible to see the ultimate log that lead to the crash. I reverted to the previous kernel, but strangely the crashes continued whereas before it never occurred. After fiddling around, I decided to blacklist the RT61 kernel module and to fetch back my old network wire :-(
That was the status until I quit using computer for a year. By that time, Ubuntu continued evolving and Hardy, then Gusty where out. I upgraded! And I thought that perhaps during that time the crash might have been solved. I removed from the blacklist the RT61 kernel module and my old network wire! Free again ;-) I just had to wait a couple of hours before a crash occurred! And I kept on trying but after 3 days, I gave up, blacklisted once more the module and put back my net wire. Since then (more than a week now), I had no crash whatsoever!
There really seems to be something wrong in this module that causes complete blackout of the computer (nothing respond at all).

PS: I could not find back the bug report on Feisty.