Its probably too new to be in 2.2 and work right.... try putting a bog-standard tulip or ne2000 card in your firewall box.
A 10 Mbit card should do you fine, unless you have a seriouly big connection. While you're at it - swear and curse at Ihug for being backwards neanderthals. > ---------- > From: Zane Gilmore[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 12:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: 2.2 Kernel problem with redhat7.2 > > 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 >
