Edgy + iMac G5 = weird network behavior

[Eric Lemoine]

> I'm not sure.  A few months ago I played with Gentoo and hit a very similar
> problem which prevented me downloading updates to complete installation.
> Nobody there seemed able to help, so I gave up.

Ok. Good info.


> Also what
> is your network card? sungem?
>
> Who knows?  Whatever Apple use in their Rev-A iMac G5s for built-in
> Ethernet.

What does "lsmod | grep sungem" give?

Also, what happens if while you have the "connecting to..." message in
firefox you ping the remote machine and leave the ping running? Is
firefox moving forward?


-- 
Eric