Have just installed this version myself, so far so good everything is up and running fine. Best of all it seems that my LAN connection is stable. The only thing is I haven't managed to get my MO drive mounted but will look through the forums for some advice about that.
I had installed 10.0 which reeked havoc with my machine, then 10.1 which half worked - reinstalled it about a dozen times and finally got it at an acceptible level. I then got a new hard drive and put 10.1 in from the start and "bingo" perfect except for LAN connection. So fingers crossed this time that all is well.
I've got a Toshiba Dynabook DS60P with additional 128 RAM and a 40gig HDD (internal).
Connected devices - Toshiba CD-ROM (PC card), Corega LAN card, optical mouse (USB), Epson PM950c (USB),
Buffalo clip drive (USB), IOData HDPX-U80 (USB), Toshiba FDD (USB) and Memory card PC card adapters (3).
The MO is a Logitec LMO-A636U and I'm going to try linking my Pioneer DVD recorder through the i-link to see what happens!
My brother adviced me if I was having problems to just keep re-booting the system to see if it helps - something about it constintley upgrades itself each time at boot (not through the internet) kinda like a self-repair program. Some of the re-installing I done I selected "upgrade" rather than "new install" and maybe thats why I got it to a point where I was happy with it.
Sorry that I don't have a definite solution for your problem - but thought you might like to know how I got on with the new release...
All the best....