Comment 2 for bug 164058

Thanks, sorry I wasn't clear enough

'improve the behavior with legacy drivers' yes that was one reason I upgraded, and also why I was surprised when it didn't work.

pre update

 rutilt would be started with X and I would select the profile hit apply (prompted for admin password ie not running sudo) and it would connect fine.

after the update

 rutilt would be started with X and I would select the profile hit apply (prompted for admin password ie not running sudo) and it quickly brings up an application modal window 'network interface is down'
(actually when you first do this it brings up 2, which is interesting) and then continues to do this for a while (presumably it retries and fails each time)

I tried running sudo rutilt
still doesnt work

tried sudo rutilt and created a new profile ( just in case you had changed the format)
still doesnt work

it can scan for networks (and oddly it found more that previously, but I don't think that's relevant, they are all on channel 11 , I'm on 13 so no interference) so the hardware is working at this point.
it can't connect to any of them.

just in case it was because my driver wasn't the latest
I downloaded the latest serialmonkey driver
followed instructions here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=400236

removed the kernel driver (sudo modprobe -r rt73)
then loaded the new one
still no joy it wont connect

used command line to issue ifconfig /iwconfig commands to get it to connect this works so its not an issue with the driver

opened synaptic package manager and forced install of previous rutilt

works first time