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Hello,
On our new MacBook Pro with Mavericks the Wi-Fi symbol and Ethernet symbol are swapped with the text. After the word Wi-Fi the icon Ethernet is displayed and after the word Ethernet the icon Wi-Fi is displayed.
How can this be put in correct order ?
Thanks,
Hubert
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I was actually chatting with Apple Support about exactly this problem when I found the answer while simultaneously digging around on the Internet. This discussion at the MacRumors forum has the answer:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1533959
To quote:
Click the gear icon below those names and select "Rename Service" to edit the name.
Because you can't have two things named the same thing, I started by naming the actual Ethernet service "cow". Then I correctly renamed "Wi-Fi", then I correctly renamed "Ethernet".
In my case, this oddity showed up after migrating data from an older Mavericks Mac. Reinstalling and even Combo updating Mavericks changed nothing regarding this situation. Simply swap the service names back!
I was actually chatting with Apple Support about exactly this problem when I found the answer while simultaneously digging around on the Internet. This discussion at the MacRumors forum has the answer:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1533959
To quote:
Click the gear icon below those names and select "Rename Service" to edit the name.
Because you can't have two things named the same thing, I started by naming the actual Ethernet service "cow". Then I correctly renamed "Wi-Fi", then I correctly renamed "Ethernet".
In my case, this oddity showed up after migrating data from an older Mavericks Mac. Reinstalling and even Combo updating Mavericks changed nothing regarding this situation. Simply swap the service names back!
Thank you. It solved my problem !
Network preferences: symbol and text swapped
