From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) Description of problem: When I launched neat to configure my network device, a divece was shown like; Inactive eth0 eth0 Ethernet So, I selected it and clicked "Activate" button, then got warning saying " Cannot activate network device eth0". Then it was deleted successfully using "delete" button. Next, tried to add new device using "Add" button and got message "Exception Occured" below: Please visit http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/ ! File a bug against component redhat-config-network. Thank you! Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 1402, in ? gtk.mainloop() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/gtk.py", line 2676, in mainloop _gtk.gtk_main() File "/usr/lib/python1.5/siet-packages/libglade.py", line 28, in__call__ ret = apply(self.func, a) File "/usr/sbin/neat", line 473, in on_deviceAddButton_clicked interface = NewInterfaceDialog() File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-cofig-network/netconfpkg/gui/NewInterfaceDialog.py", line 82, in__init__ iface = iface_creator (self.toplevel, do__save = None, druid = self.druid) File "/usr/sbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/EthernetInterface.py", line 101, in__init__ self.hwDruid = ethernetHardware (self.toplevel) File "/usr/sbin../share/redhat-config-network/netfonfpkg/gui/EhternetHardware Druid.py", line 64, in__init__ self.setup() File "/us/rsbin/../share/redhat-config-network/netfonfpkg/gui/EthernetHardware Druid.py", line 118, in setup list.append(modinfo[i]["description']) KeyError: description And as a result, network was not configured. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.0.0-1.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.became root, open xterm and start neat by command line 2.click Add button 3. Actual Results: Everytime I got message saying "Exception Occured". Expected Results: Configure network device and activate it. Additional info: Hardware was Dell Precision M60 laptop workstation.
Can you please first upgrade to the erratum and retry, if this fixes your problem? http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-267.html
Closing due to inactivity. Reopen, if the problem is still existing.