Yea, Im thinkin of upgrading, but was just trying to solve this on my present installation.
I tried the pppoe(4) example exactly but then when I run ifconfig pppoe0 the line:
dev: rl0 state: PADI sent
just show:
dev: state: PADI sent
...as if it hasn't detected tje connection to the rl0-interface. And the ppp-connection doesn't move, no retries are made and so on. So the hostname.pppoe0 config posted is the closest to success so far