I don't have any choice on that. The problem is that it lost my PPPoE password during the upgrade for some reason, and when I open nm-connection-editor, it segfaults when it tries to authenticate me. Other programs (eg- synaptic) work just fine, so the problem has to be in the connection editor. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this, and if there are any good workarounds.

Well, I ended up using pppoeconf to set up a connection, but it's a bit awkward when I try to use my laptop elsewhere, such as a wifi hotspot in a cafe or some such.... I have to go do a poff -a and then pon blah blah blah when I get back home and hook it up.

It's actually got a little router blahdeblah in it. Yeah, my Mom had one of those, but this one doesn't... though mebbe I should look it up and see if perhaps it's just not activated.