From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.9 i686) Description of problem: I made an update installation from RH 7.1 to roswell. MY 7.1 system was installed with a running network access (3c59x, Kernel 2.4.9). But after roswell was installed, the network access failed ("Cannot send dump request" msg during init 3). I found the following solution: Compile a new Kernel with "NETLINK=Y" and "RTNETLINK=Y". Then roswell will run without problem. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: see above. Actual Results: No network access possible. Expected Results: Network reachable. Additional info: --
Appears to be a kernel related issue, reassigning.
Yes Netlink is required basically to do any real networking; David Miller has said that he wants these config options removed and default to enabled in the TCP/IP stack because the code overhead is low and all non-trivial network setups require this. I'd say this is not a real bug; more that 2.4.9 doesn't have the default set yet.