Sadly, after persisting with Network Manager's inconsistent connections, I am taking Tiger99's advice (post #217) and using Betavine and wicd to get reliable, first-time connection.
I say sadly, because I want Ubuntu to work ootb. But this has been an up c**k from the beta version of Karmic. Sadly, too, because it seems that nobody from Canonical is paying attention to users. Why else would there be over 300 (many angry) posts on this bug -- and growing? -- Several Huawei USB dongle don't work with kernel 2.6.31-12.40 (2.6.31.1 update related) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/446146 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs