Ever since upgrading my laptop to 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04, the in-game browser in Eve stopped working. This was mostly an annoyance, so I never took the time to try to fix it. It turns out that in my case, the fix is easy and it’s actually part of the wine FAQ. The problem is that wine wasn’t resolving hostnames properly. The fix for 64 bit Ubuntu users and possibly other 64 bit linux users is to install the “lib32nss-mdns” pachage. It may be named differently for other distributions. Here’s the command I ran:
sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns
The next time I started Eve, the IGB worked fine.