Description of problem:
I have recently installed Redhat 9 on my IBM Thinkpad A22m.  It has both a 
wireless internal ethernet and a PCMCIA 3Com 10/100 Lan PC Card with XJack 
connector.  Model 3CXFE574BT.

When I boot all responses are OK.  

If I attempt to remove the PCMCIA card I get a beep and when I reinstall it a 
get the double beep.  So, I assume the system is recognizing my card properly.

After getting logged in I attempt to run redhat-config-network to get 
configured.  The following exception occurs.

I had to type this in from the exception error display because I have
no networking.

An unhandled exception has occured.  Component: redhat-config-network
version 1.2.0

Summary: TB /usr/src/build/228093-
i386/install/usr/lib/python/sre.py:137:search:TypeError:epected string or buffer
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/redhat-config-network-gui", line 154, in ?
  window = mainDialog()

File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 154, in__init__
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 225, in load__
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/gui/maindialog.py", line 232, in loadDevices__
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", line 210, in getDeviceList
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/NCDeviceList.py", line 117, in load
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/plugins/NCDevWireless.py", line 34, in load
File "/usr/src/build/226257-noarch/install/usr/share/redhat-config-
network/netconfpkg/NCWireless.py", line 52, in load
File "usr/src/build/228093-i386/install/usr/lib/python2.2/sre.py", line 137, in 
search
  return _compile(pattern, flags).search(string)
TypeError: expected string or buffer


How do I get around this problem?

Thanks.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Every time

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Boot
2.Login as root
3.Choose System Setting -> Network
    
Actual results:  Exception panel is displayed


Expected results: Network configuration to be handled


Additional info: