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Definitely an annoying bug, that I only figured out pppoeconf thanks to my xp partition. People without dual partitions or other computers are going to have some major problems with 9.10.
Even using pppoeconf to connect to the internet, my functionality is extremely limited. I went to install other programs via sudo apt-get, and it didn't work. I tried synaptic package manager, and it didn't work. I tried the new Ubuntu software center and it didn't work. All of them apparently rely on the network manager connection, not whether you can actually connect to the internet.
To be clear, Ubuntu software center didn't have download links and Synaptic only displayed currently installed packages. As such, even if users figure out pppoeconf, they are stuck with the base installation (unless I'm encountering some other bug).
On the other hand, firefox worked fine, so I know that pppoeconf did indeed connect me to the Internet.
For extra information, I did a clean install of 9.10. I was running 8.10 on two partitions (/ and /home), and wiped and re-created both as ext4 for 9.10. So there's no residual files and configuration settings from an upgrade.