I have an ethernet card (eth0) and an ADSL connection (ppp0), besides an ipaq running familiar linux. When I connect the ipaq to the usb port on my desktop, it creates the network device usb0 with no IP address. Then I launch redhat-config-network to give it an IP address but it crashes. If I remove the ipaq it works as usual, but at least one it had erased my network configuration.
how does it crash? segfault? traceback? try to start it from a terminal and provide the output: $ redhat-config-network
ping
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