Hi Zane, The same thing happens to me when I install a 2.4 kernel as well ( even if it was compiled on a RH7.1 machine ). Unfortuanatly I have not gotten to the bottom of the problem yet.
Dave. > 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 Dave van Leeuwen Analyst Programmer University of Canterbury New Zealand
