Internet access problem with ppp(oe)

[Tuomas Jouhten <tujouhte@mail.student.oulu.fi>]

Hi,

Problems with internet connection. Neither browsers nor apt cannot access
internet right after booting up to X. After booting up there's two
pppd-processes, which need to be killed, and then only after running
"pon dsl-provider" (prints "Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded")
internet connection works. 

I'm quite green with debian and with linux, so that workaround was found simply
by an accident.. 

The problem was evident right after Etch installation (netinst dvd-image).
Network manager (an icon the side panel) notified that there was a network
connection, and that there were updates available, but still the browsers
couldn't access the web.  

"ps x | grep ppp" shows

 3736 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd call provider
 4587 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/pppd call dsl-provider
 5227 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep ppp

Running etch, vdsl-modem, ppp confed with pppoeconf. Have two entries in
/etc/ppp/peers/. (and don't know if both of them should be there)

Also, Firestarter is running and showing eth0 (type is ethernet) and ppp0 (type
is internet) and ppp1 (type is dialup).