I've looked through different posts about this type of issue but am not able to find a working solution. After running pppoeconf in terminal the option to connect through the configuration was taken. I then typed in 'plog' out of curiosity to check the network connection status. Here's what I got back:
I rebooted but the network configuration at startup didn't initialize at first, was prompted that 60 more seconds would be devoted to the task and the computer then continued the startup process. Ran pppoeconf again to make sure I got the info right, ran the 'plog' and got the same response. I can't use network manager. I'm stuck. Please help.