diff --git a/s390utils.spec b/s390utils.spec
index ba6e33d..22cd0e6 100644
--- a/s390utils.spec
+++ b/s390utils.spec
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Name:           s390utils
 Summary:        Utilities and daemons for IBM z Systems
 Group:          System Environment/Base
 Version:        2.5.0
-Release:        2%{?dist}
+Release:        3%{?dist}
 Epoch:          2
 License:        MIT
 ExclusiveArch:  s390 s390x
@@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ Requires:       perl gawk sed coreutils
 Requires:       sysfsutils
 Requires:       sg3_utils
 Requires:       ethtool
+Requires:       network-scripts
 %{?systemd_requires}
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpfm-devel
@@ -806,6 +807,9 @@ User-space development files for the s390/s390x architecture.
 
 
 %changelog
+* Thu Jul 26 2018 Dan Horák <dan[at]danny.cz> - 2:2.5.0-3
+- network-scripts are required for network device initialization
+
 * Sat Jul 14 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2:2.5.0-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_29_Mass_Rebuild