Rosewill RNX-N150PCx help

[JadElClemens]

So, I boot into Mint 12 and attempt to connect to my router, only to find that it won't connect (Along with the fact that I'm not getting a nice GUI to scan for wireless networks or anything of the sort).

After thinking about it for a while, I decided it was probably a driver problem with my card. I downloaded the linux driver for it, and open it up within Mint.

That was freaking confusing.

Long story short, I didn't get to use the Linux driver. I went through the steps it took me to figure out how to use NDISwrapper (and that there was even such a thing), and try to use the Windows driver with it.
But there's no driver file (extension I[something][something]), if I remember correctly. I tried to download the windows driver again, but all I'm seeing there is the setup '.exe'.

Any advice? Could you attempt to help me figure out how to compile (or edit) the Linux driver?

[JadElClemens]

To add to my suspicion that this is driver-related, here are the results of 'sudo /usr/lib/linuxmint/mintWifi/mintWifi.py'

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* I. scanning WIFI PCI devices...
  -- Ralink corp. RT3060 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R
      ==> PCI ID = 1814:3060
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* II. querying ndiswrapper...
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* III. querying iwconfig...
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any 
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
         
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* IV. querying ifconfig...
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:30:67:bd:3b:1d 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
          Interrupt:43 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback 
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)  TX bytes:1920 (1.9 KB)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1a:ef:17:5d:f6 
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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* V. querying DHCP...
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* VI. querying nslookup google.com...
;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached

It obviously found my wireless card and detected it, it's just not functioning properly.
Should I attempt to configure the driver (if I can figure out how) and compile it (likewise), or should I just get a new wireless card (It'll only be, like, 20 bucks) that has linux drivers already? Will those still need to be configured and compiled? I've found this one that says it has support for linux (and I found the linux drivers on the website).

EDIT: I also failed to mention that my current card's drivers state that they're only for linux kernel 2.4 and 2.6, whereas Lisa has kernel 3.0 (as you probably know). I'm going to assume that the driver and the kernel are incompatible, but do you think they'll be compatible?