I finally solved with a wizard launched in the terminal to configure the connection according to the PPPoE protocol.
After connecting the modem to power, phone and laptop, opening a terminal and running:
sudo pppoeconfwizand will be launched:
Where most options are already set by default so, except username and password of the connection, user will just confirm. In one of the last gray interfaces it's possible to set the starting of the connection at boot-time. Finally, they are indicated the commands to start the connection manually from a terminal:
sudo pon dsl-provider To close all requests and disconnect the command is:
sudo poff To control connection status:
sudo plog For informations about the net inteface created:
sudo ifconfig ppp0 UPDATE 4 ottobre 2009:
here is a guide from italian Ubuntu community
http://wiki.ubuntu-it.org/Hardware/Modem/AdslPppoe.

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