wine users - Mar 2009 - Steam game activation problem

I'm running Wine 1.0.1 on Ubuntu 8.04.  When I go to activate a game in
Steam, it doesn't do anything with the "Activating key with
Steam..." progress bar and times out with the Steam error:

Steam server is unavailable

Your computer is either currently unable to reach the Steam servers, or the
service may be temporarily disabled.  Please try again later.

It's been like this for every game I own.  Even games I bought through
Steam.

A search for this issue didn't come up with anything related.  Has anyone
else had this issue?

I'm dual booting with Vista and it works OK on that side.  I'd leave
Vista for good if I could play a couple of my games under Linux.  Thanks for all
the hard work you guys put into Wine.

-James

Unless you've made edits to your Ubuntu you can't remember, update
Ubuntu and/or WINE, v1.0.1 is ancient and support for it was quitted years ago,
so-to-speak.

jamesr652 wrote:
> Ubuntu 8.10 and Wine 1.1.17 still have the same issue.  Nothing unusual
appears when I run it through the terminal.  No fixmes or anything appear during
authentication.  It just times out.
Have you removed/renamed ~/.wind directory and reinstalled Steam?