I suffer from the same thing. After every boot I have to run 'sudo pppoeconf' to let it check for access concentrators. Only then pon dsl- provider connects me successfully.
What is weird about it: I Experienced this in Breezy, it went away in Dapper and is now happening again in Edgy. -- pppoeconf does not save configuration https://launchpad.net/bugs/47632 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs