SSH problems

[Michael Peek]

Hello all,

I have the following little problem:

Before I upgraded my laptop from feisty to gutsy, I used to be able to
do this:

laptop$ ssh -l me workstation.at.work
password:
workstation$ ssh-add
Enter passphrase for ...:
Identity added: ...
workstation$

After which, I could ssh anywhere and as anyone that I could had I used
ssh-add on the console of my workstation.  Very nice for working from home.

But after the upgrade, I get the following error:

laptop$ ssh -l me workstation.at.work
password:
workstation$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

I have verified that ssh-agent is in fact running:

laptop$ ps -ef | grep ssh-agent
me      5649  5614  0 09:37 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/ssh-agent
x-session-manager

I have also tried running the ssh-agent by hand:

laptop$ exec ssh-agent bash
laptop$ ssh -l me workstation.at.work
password:
workstation$ ssh-add
Could not open a connection to your authentication agent.

And I have tried installing openssh-server (something that I really
don't want to do if I can avoid it), but that didn't work either.

So, ubuntu gurus, can anyone help me?  Anyone have any idea why this
would have worked under feisty and not under gutsy?  What can I check
that I haven't already?

Thanks for your help,

Michael