The wireless connection would disconnect when I unplugged my laptop or woke it up when not directly connected to power. Attempting to disable and re-enable the wireless interface did not fix it. Even unloading and reloading the driver modules did not fix it. The only fix was to reboot.

The following two things are both required to fix wireless issues with the rt2860sta driver.

First, Ubuntu was loading unnecessary drivers for my wireless card. I addressed this by adding the following lines to: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib
It seems that these additional modules were interfering with the rt2860sta driver during wake up.

In addition I needed to have Ubuntu to unload and reload my wireless driver before and after going to sleep. This is done putting the following line in /etc/pm/config.d/unload_wireless
SUSPEND_MODULES="rt2860sta"

Note that the file name there is not actually important. The line just needs to be in a file in the /etc/pm/config.d/ directory.

Rebooting once after making these changes has solved the problem.

When running the start.bat script or lord.exe it would fail with this error:
# Firing Up LORD.OVR
# Using EMS for faster overlay swapping.
Internal error #38019
Cannot continue.

I did few preliminary searches for these errors on Google and finding only complaints about them. I contacted Gameport which currently distributes the game and they pointed me to an obscure link on the authors website which has a patch for this bug.

The url to the patch for this issue is: http://lord.lordlegacy.com/dosemu/

There is also single forum posting on the authors site about this issue as well but it lacks useful keywords to make it findable. That forum posting is here: http://lord.lordlegacy.com/phorum/read.php?5,196

midget# dhclient

Unrecognized Kernel Version

The way to fix this is to edit /sbin/dhclient and locate the line that contains “2.[12345].*)” and change it to “2.[123456].*)”