On 10/11/07, Erik Anderson <erikerik at gmail.com> wrote:
> I know nothing about Sabayon specifically, but plenty about linux in
> general.  You'll need to answer a few questions to help us diagnose
> what's going on.

For starters, Sabayon is gentoo.  Apparently their goal is to have
their installer produce a system that looks really nice, but is
completely compatible with gentoo.  (I'm assuming that by that, they
mean it will work with the portage system properly, and everything
else will be familiar to gentoo users...?)
I had some free time and a spare box, and decided to poke around a
bit, and I found the same issue that Danny is seeing.  Pretty
frustrating, actually!  The networking works just fine, but something
to do with DNS is broken.  I can ping anything (LAN or WAN) by IP, but
nothing WAN by name.
I did some googling and found that this is a known issue.
http://www.sabayonlinux.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=52&t=9677
There has been a bug filed for this issue, and there is a temporary
workaround, but not a permanent fix yet.  I tried the workaround, with
great success.
http://bugs.sabayonlinux.org/show_bug.cgi?id=282

FWIW, I had previously installed Ubuntu 7.04 on this computer, and it
just worked for everything except having a proper display resolution
for the hardware I'm using.
I did use the mini install from Sabayon instead of the full install,
and it left me missing a lot of things that I would like to see in a
default install.  (vi/emacs/pico, links/linx, dig/nslookup to name a
few)

- Justin