From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050305 Fedora/1.7.5-5 Description of problem: enabling CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV causes eth0 to fail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.11-1.1176_FC4 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install kernel 2. boot kernel 3. Actual Results: RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument Expected Results: Bringin up eth0 [OK] Additional info:
disabling CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV works
a little more information... the Invalid argument was first noticed at loopback then on bringing up eth0, but building my own kernel disabling CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV in .config makes my system HAPPY
*** Bug 150763 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Fixed in 1177