> 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 :-) )
> Does anybody have any ideas? The net card's driver is missing/buggy in 2.2.x because it's (the driver) too new? Install the 2.4.x sources and search for sis900, it might give something away. You could also do that with the 2.2.x sources and compare. Volker
