I am trying to use netconsole to examine some problems I am having booting Alienware 13 r3 and 14 laptops. I am running opensuse 42.3 with generic 4.18.7 kernel configured to include netconsole. After building my kernel and including the proper command (as shown below) in the linux boot string: netconsole=64001@192.168.7.60/eth0,64001@192.168.7.55/34:e6:d7:01:2a:dd I receive the following error message, as shown by journalctl: sudo journalctl -b | grep netconsole Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: local port 64001 Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: local IPv4 address 192.168.7.60 Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: interface 'eth0' Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: remote port 64001 Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: remote IPv4 address 192.168.7.55 Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: remote ethernet address 34:e6:d7:01:2a:dd Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netpoll: netconsole: eth0 doesn't exist, aborting Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 kernel: netconsole: cleaning up Sep 24 22:01:25 dfpc60 systemd-modules-load[185]: Module 'netconsole' is builtin I examined the timing in more detail and found that the above "eth0: doesn't exist" message comes at Sep 24 22:01:25.080603. The wicked message eth0: up comes at Sep 24 22:02:01.173616. The difference is maybe 36 seconds? There is an eth0: avail message at Sep 24 22:01:34.112744, don't know if that would suffice for netconsole Both are after netconsole has bailed out. Any obvious solutions I am missing? The documentation is pretty clear on how to set this up, so there must be some way to get it to work. I could find nothing on Google. This is my first post to this list, so if this question is not appropriate please let me know without flames:-) Don