getting my first pear-package

Hi, I'm using Debian Woody and got PHP 4.2.1. compiled php with --enable-cli and now I got the php-executable When running $ pear install DB I get downloading http://pear.php.net/get/DB?uncompress=yes ... It stays there until it timeouts with a failure http://pear.php.net/get/DB?uncompress=yes: failed to download (fopen("http://pear.php.net/get/DB?uncompress=yes", "r") - Bad file descriptor) There is no communication going on (no lights on the modem) while timing out What could be wrong? My provider, permits me to connect via a proxy. Could this be the problem? Marc