Re: 3Com PCI 3c905C Tornado with later kernels

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Fri, 26 Oct 2001 15:24:26 -0400


Sean Swallow wrote:
>
> List,
>
> I am having a problem with a 3c905C and later kernels (2.4.9, 2.4.12 and
> 2.4.13). When I try to use my 3c905C with these kernels I get this error
> message:
>
> Cannot open netlink socket: Address family not supported by protocol
>
> Kernel 2.4.7 works fine with this nic tho. I also tried this on another
> machine with the same results.

Did you upgrade your initscripts by any chance?

Turn on CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV in your kernel config.

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