Linksys PAP2 Overheating Problem

Bought it off ebay (new, unlocked NA version) from China and all was well for about 3 weeks. Then Line-1 stopped working: no dial tone, just some popping sound when I lift the receiver. Line-2 was still OK. However, a few days later Line-2 also dies. When unplugging the device I noticed that it was very hot; so I left it unplugged until it cooled down. The cool device came back to life and all worked for about 20 minutes until it got very hot again. Did this a few times and now the Lines can access the internal AVR menu of the device but the SIP connections don't work anymore--even though the web-config shows that the SIP connections are online.

Ubuntu: NetworkManager, VPN, Mediatomb Conflicts

Oh, the stupidity of wanting *too* much: I want mediatomb to startup at boot so that the media service will be available without any users logging-in. However, using NetworkManager to manage connections doesn't configure the ethernet adapter before mediatomb starts so mediatomb dies at startup. This is easily resolved by setting the ethernet device to autostart in /etc/networks/interfaces, but this causes NetworkManager to not show any network connections and thus you can't start any VPN connections you may have setup in NetworkManager.

OK, so let's just scrap NetworkManager and use a different interface to connect to VPN. Kvpnc seems like a good candidate so I tried that. Unfortunately the latest release of Kvpnc (0.9.0) for Jaunty does not have support for MS-CHAP v2. Probably have to wait for Karmic to get Kvpnc 0.9.1 which should support MS-CHAP v2. Shit.