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