Comment 35 for bug 509547

this has just been a disaster after disaster ...
at the moment, it is so unreliable, it is not usable.
Sometimes it works, sometimes not.
funny thing is, for me, it works first every time on a new install, or on the live CD.
As soon as you have installed, done the first connection setup, reboot.
Then there are problems.
Usually you get the USB modem popping up as a drive, shown as an icon on the desktop,
but then rarely does it show up as a network option.
very frustrating.