Just to preempt problems - don't use the netinst; go for a full ISO http://www.debian.org/CD/and update it after installation. Well, actually the netinst image does work with PPPoE; details are outlined at http://wiki.debian.org/PPPoE (first google hit for "debian pppoe") YMMV.
If that won't boot your machine, deal with your connection etc then aptosid install disks (a single cd) have recognised new/wierd motherboards etc when most others failed for me in the past, giving me a working system with a good manual and clear guides as to which bits of non-free stuff you may need to download to deal with various its of hardware. I think a lot of their stuff ends up upstream in debian soon enough.
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