Error message keeps popping up "Network Connection could not find PPPoe Server"

I am trying to update my wife's iBook, 2,1 for my mom to use. It is running OS 10.6.8. Every time I wake up the computer an error message pops up saying "Network Connection could not find a PPPoe Server." It does it periodically when the computer is on. It will drive my mom nuts and worry her. Can anyone help me stop this from happening?
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Error message pops up saying "Network Connection could not find a PPPoe Server.

I am trying to update my wife's iBook, 2,1 for my mom to use. It is running OS 10.6.8. Every time I wake up the computer an error message pops up saying "Network Connection could not find a PPPoe Server." It does it periodically when the computer is on. It will drive my mom nuts and worry her. Can anyone help me stop this from happening?
Thanks,
KC

Hello kevinfromwauwatosa,
Thanks for the question. The following article provides the most relevant information to your issue:
Troubleshooting "A connection failure has occurred", "The specified server could not be found" or similar messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1843
For additional information see this resource:
Mac OS X: Troubleshooting a PPPoE Internet Connection
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1871
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This question is different from other similar ones I've read.
I have a Windows box that I use every day, connected to DSL by ethernet to a D-Link modem/router. I frequently connect/disconnect my MacBook Pro 10.6.8 and, until recently, all was well. It would be online as soon as it booted up. Now, while my Windows machine still gets online fine, MacBook says my ethernet is connected, but I can't get online. My DHCP is fine, but when I click the connect button for PPPoE, I get the message "Network Connection - could not find a PPPoE server". I didn't look but I'm assuming it was using both DHCP and PPPoE when it was working properly.
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Got a different person at my ISP today, she says I have a dynamic IP address, so both my computers only need DHCP. We walked through my Windows machine network screen and it is definitely set up with just DHCP (just like the Mac). But she couldn't tell me why Windows was working and Mac wasn't. Which makes me wonder why the Apple shop told me to click on connect PPPoE!
She said when I took my Mac to the shop and both DHCP and PPPoE were showing as active, only the DHCP was needed and actually doing anything. And she couldn't tell me why I couldn't just take my Mac plus the router into the shop and get it set up there.
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