Hi During suse 9.1 autoinstall (x86_64), as part of pre-install preparation, I use wget to retrieve files from my server. But it fails with the following message "Address family not supported by protocol". Heres wget command : wget /pub/file1">ftp://<ipaddr>/pub/file1 On stracing the operation ie "strace -fF wget ....", i found this error occurs while executing the "socket(IP_INET6,sock_stream,...)" function call. Is there any way to switch this to ipv4 ?? Also the /etc/hosts has "::1 ...." line for ipv6 addressing. Could this be the cause of the error ?? Any idea what could be the problem here ? thanks kanji --------------------------------- Yahoo! Photos Ring in the New Year with Photo Calendars. Add photos, events, holidays, whatever.