Why I am not able to register RHEL 6 system to Red Hat Network ?

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Issue

  • Unable to register RHEL 6 system to Red Hat Network through command line.
  • Command rhn_register fails with :
^CTraceback (most recent call last):
   File “/usr/sbin/rhn_register”, line 26 in <module>
      From up2date_client import tui
   File “/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/tui.py”, line 29, in <module>
      Import rhnreg, hardware
   File “/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/rhnreg.py”, line 23, in <module>
      Import hardware
   File “/usr/share/rhn/up2date_client/hardware.py”, line 26, in <module>
      Import ethtool
ImportError: No module named ethtool

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • RHN Classic

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