On Fri, 10 May 2002, Xu, Jia wrote: > I checked the boot.log and found the following line: > Ifup: Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not supported by protocol. is your kernel built with this option: $ grep -i netlink .config CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y i'm not sure that it is the answer, but your error message makes it an obvious first guess. - brett