From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: When installing Red Hat 7.3 to a laptop computer, if the only installed networking device is a serial modem is connected to the /dev/ttyS0 serial port, anaconda does not install the redhat-config-network package. According to the release notes, this package is needed for dialup access. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1.New installation of Red Hat 7.3 (not an upgrade) 2.Laptop installation class 3. KDE selected as desktop environment 4.On target system, only a serial modem is installed e.g. no pcmcia ethernet cards, no onboard ethernet is available. /dev/ttyS0 has the modem connected to it. 5. Modem is turned on and has telephone line connected to it. 6. Modem should be detected. Redhat-config-network program ought to be installed as a result. Expected Results: The serial modem should have been detected and the redhat-config-network package installed. Since this is a laptop installation and the user is likely to pop in a pcmcia card at any time, the redhat-config-network package should be installed by default. Additional info:
The redhat-config-network package will be included in the package set if the user chooses the Network Support component. That's as it should be.
Someone please verify this for installation of type "Workstation" and "KDE". 1 Network Support { ? GNOME { gq redhat-config-network openssh-askpass-gnome } } Doesn't this mean, redhat-config-network is only installed when GNOME is installed? I've seen several new reports recently about redhat-config-network not being available on KDE workstation installs.