nm disabled by pppoeconf

[Frederik Nnaji <frederik nnaji gmail com>]

hello list ;)

here's something i need help with, perhaps somebody knows a viable solution in lucid!?
network manager couldn't create a dsl connection on a modem/router device.

so i used pppoeconf.

pppoeconf handled everything with just confirming all the way through it's interactive configuration dialog.
ever since the computer dials in to the internet properly.

now i have new hardware and i want to use WLAN on the machine..

network manager doesn't show up on my lucid.

when started from "System">Preferences>Network Connections, there are no default connections, no devices managed in network manager..

the help from here didn't work, since the problem seems to have a different matrix on lucid
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=822095

thanks for reading