Comment 171 for bug 191889

João: yes, that sucks. But in your case, NM 0.6 is simply not capable of correctly managing the UMTS card. It's just not built for that. I maintain that FF is correct in assuming that when NM is running, NM reports accurate status. If NM is not able to correctly control the default route of your primary device, then you should not be running NM. It doesn't matter if NM can easily control the wifi, because that's only a _part_ of the total connectivity of your laptop. Until your distro updates to 0.7, there are other tools that will probably work better for you because they are limited to just controlling the wifi (wifiradar, etc).