On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 01:42:07AM -0600, ScanMan wrote: > I just upgraded from Mandrake 8.0 to 8.1, and now when I type "ifup > eth0", it says, "Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not > supported by protocol". This is a nonsense statement as far as I can > tell. Does anyone know what this means? It means you left a few things out of your kernel that Mandrake's ifup now depends on. You want to enable CONFIG_*NETLINK*. Nate