Ok, I can wrap my brain around all of this. Except, in the source, I didn't see anything to compile. I've got /etc/init.d/confconsole set and executeable. It looks for confconsole in /usr/bin I believe; I didn't see anything to compile or move there, so I touched /usr/bin/confconsole and told it to invoke python /path/to/confconsole.py.

Brilliant. I'll check the logs.

[Later] I think I see the problem. ifutils is being found. So I suspect pythonpath is not pointing do where the install doc said to put the .py files: /usr/lib/confconsole.

You're all clever and have judgement: should I make a new forum topic?