I am having a slightly worrying problem with an upgrade to
RH7.2.

I have to run an old kernel (2.2.18) because I use the Ihug satellite
thingy (the Skymedia sm200dtp card) and the only drivers I could get to work were for 
this kernel version.

Unfortunately when I recently did an upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2, it broke my network.

The network card is a 10/100 sis900 chipset thing that works fine if I boot to the 
standard
2.4.x standard RH kernel. But when I boot to the 2.2.18 kernel and try to bring up the
network (/etc/init.d/network start) I get the message:

"Unable to open netlink socket: Address range not supported by protocol"
(that is from memory I forgot to get the exact message from home whoops :-) )

After having a good look around I tried recompiling the kernel with netlink support.
This made no difference.

Does anybody have any ideas?
Right now I only have either my internet connection or my home network not both :-(

Thanks

-- 
Zane Gilmore, Analyst / Programmer
Information Services Section, Information Technology Dept, University of Canterbury
Private Bag 4800
Christchurch New Zealand
phone +64-3-364 2987 extn 7895  Fax 3642222

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