diff --git a/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig
index 4af1f8d4b9533816b9b571d6681a2abc5ae01d78..8349887827dc9d5d639f806b8779bb4b7651edb5 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/staging/ramster/Kconfig
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 config RAMSTER
 	bool "Cross-machine RAM capacity sharing, aka peer-to-peer tmem"
-	depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CONFIGFS_FS=y && !ZCACHE && !XVMALLOC && !HIGHMEM
+	depends on (CLEANCACHE || FRONTSWAP) && CONFIGFS_FS=y && !ZCACHE && !XVMALLOC && !HIGHMEM && NET
 	select LZO_COMPRESS
 	select LZO_DECOMPRESS
 	default n