Ethernet and Airport Interfaces Reversed

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Ethernet and Airport Interfaces Reversed

I created an image of the new Mac Book Pro(Mid 2010) and slapped it on the new Mac Mini(Mid 2010) and everything worked fine except one thing. I used the DVD that came with the Mac Book Pro(Mid 2010) to create the Master Image.

Under Network Preferences, the Ethernet Interface is displaying the Airport status window(i.e, "Turn Airport On/Off" button is in there). And the Airport Interface is displaying the Ethernet stats.

Any ideas what could be causing this?

Message was edited by: jjpotter

Mac Mini(Mid 2010) / Mac Book Pro(Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.6.4)

Posted on Jul 2, 2010 11:15 AM

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Answer 1

BGreg

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Jul 2, 2010 11:22 AM in response to jjpotter

Welcome to the Apple discussions.

Curious why you would want to load a new MBP image onto a new mini?

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jjpotter Author

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Jul 2, 2010 11:30 AM in response to BGreg

One image to rule them all. It has worked in the past fine. But with the new i5's we have run into a few bumps. We even do iMacs with all the same image.

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Jul 2, 2010 12:58 PM in response to jjpotter

The new Mac Mini has a completely different 10.6.4 software update for download.

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1054

Your method may work for some things but it is not a suggested method.
The versions of software that come on one machine are generally machine specific and should not be used on other machines.

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JaimieV

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Jul 2, 2010 5:39 PM in response to Joseph Kriz

This is not generally the case.

Normally any intel Mac will run a disk image of another Mac as long as it is the same or later version that the first Mac came with.

The current situation with the new Mini is an aberration, since it came with a special version of 10.6.3, and now a special version of 10.6.4.

Once 10.6.5 drops for all Macs, I fully expect that once again any Mac will run each other's image (unless it coincides with eg new iMacs requiring a special 10.6.5, etc!).

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Answer 5

Jan 15, 2012 9:49 AM in response to jjpotter

I had the same problem (reversed Ethernet and Airport interfaces) on my 13" MacBook Air after plugging in my Thunderbolt Display. The solution was to go to Network in System Preferences, click the minus symbol ➖ under interfaces to delete both of them, click plus ➕ to add each one back, then click Apply. Now everything is as it should be.

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