With the Network-Manager shipped along with Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 is impossible to connect to any DSL Provider that has been manually set. To get back this feature you have to upgrade to the latest Network-Manager provided by the maintainers PPA:

ppa:network-manager/trunk

this string has to be added to Administration-> Software Sources, than refresh the database and perform an automatic upgrade (check Update Manager if needed)

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