I'm trying to get ethereal or tcpdump to work in OpenSuSE 10.0, but it seems like raw sockets are not supported:

root@ronja:/tmp# tcpdump -i eth0
tcpdump: socket: Address family not supported by protocol

root@ronja:/tmp# uname -r
2.6.13-15-default

Is there an easy way to get this to work without having to compile my own kernel?


The DHCP server said this when I tried to start it:

socket: Address family not supported by protocol - make sure
CONFIG_PACKET (Packet socket) and CONFIG_FILTER
(Socket Filtering) are enabled in your kernel
configuration!

Is there a kernel configuration that can be changed at runtime? Something in /proc?

I'd appreciate any help!
/Klas

I solved the problem.

The SuSE kernel is compiled with CONFIG_PACKET=m

MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT="packet" in /etc/sysconfig/kernel plus a reboot did what I wanted.

I guess "modprobe packet" would have worked, but as I had an old kernel active and a new one installed I could just as well reboot.