iMac issues - was "No networking on iMac install"

[volvoguy]

Wait! Hold the phone.

Things didn't work properly after a reboot, so I still have some
network issues to resolve.

I previously added the "bmac" thing to my /etc/modules file, and that
seems to be working properly, but the dhcp client doesn't seem to be
running at startup. I don't have an eth0 when I run "ifconfig".
Manually running "dhclient" seems to make things work properly. I
assume this issue is because the network stuff wasn't working during
the install, so it doesn't know I want it to get my IP via DHCP. I'm
also having a problem with the network setup tool in the system
configuration menu. The error I get is:

The configuration could not be loaded. There was an error running the
backend script.

Since things are STARTING to work better (I'm writing this from the
iMac now), I'll throw out a few more issues...

Sound doesn't seem to be working. I've never had to fiddle with this
before, so I don't know where to begin troubleshooting. When I
right-click on the speaker icon in the top menu and select
"preferences", there are no entries for a sound device.

This machine is a G3 333Mhz. Would the most appropriate kernel be
"linux-image-2.6-power3"?

The last issue may not be iMac related, but this is the only machine
it's happened on so far. During the last Synaptic upgrades, gedit,
gnome-applets, and a few other seemingly important packages were
marked for removal. Was this supposed to happen?

Thanks! I'm having a ton of fun so far! :-)

Aaron