Error: "Looking for PPPoE..."

I'm using an iBook G3 running Tiger with an Airport card and a graphite base station on a DSL connection. It worked fine for about six weeks after signing up for DSL. Now, every day, I can't get on the internet because I get this running "tickertape" message next to the Airport signal icon that says... "Looking for PPPoE..." and it never "finds" it. This one iBook is the only computer using this network that I know of and when I configured it, I set it up with the Airport port and left it Automatic with DHCP (not manual) IP addressing. When I go to the PPPoE tab, the box labeled "Connect using PPPoE" is NOT checked. I do have "Airport" at the top of the list of ports with the others disabled. So why is it still trying to look for the PPPoE? The only move that fixes it is shutting down the base station and the DSL modem, waiting 5 minutes and then re-powering them on, but this only lasts about a day and then I'm back to the dumb "Looking for PPPoE..." thing again. Any ideas?

The problem seems to have been on the phone company's end. Turning off the modem for fifteen minutes is usually long enough for DSL to forget about your previous connection and give you a fresh one when you connect again. If you wait only a minute, the old connection may still be in effect.
Glad to see that it was as simple as that. Enjoy!

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    415 if [[ $dlfile != "$file" ]]; then
    416 mv -f "$SRCDEST/$dlfile" "$SRCDEST/$file"
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