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Apr 2, 2016 7:51 AM in response to spinningstillby CT,Do you have any Locations in the little drop down menu?
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Apr 2, 2016 7:57 AM in response to CTby spinningstill,Yes, I am connected to my WiFi in our home (Joy-5), but it shows up as Ethernet. It works just wondering why its doing that.
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by Grant Bennet-Alder,Apr 2, 2016 7:59 AM in response to spinningstill
Grant Bennet-Alder
Apr 2, 2016 7:59 AM
in response to spinningstill
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DesktopsThat is not that unusual. Only the name has been changed, because your Mac does not have a Built-in Ethernet. The main M.A.C. address is used for identification of your Mac in some cases.
As long as it shows the action buttons for Wi-Fi, like the turn off Wi-Fi button shown, you are fine no matter what it is called.
Often on a Mac that does have built-in Ethernet, Wi-Fi is referred to as en2 or something like that.
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Apr 2, 2016 8:36 AM in response to CTby CT,I read somewhere that deleting/reconfiguring the Locations may get the Network connection display to read accurately again.
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Apr 2, 2016 8:58 AM in response to CTby Grant Bennet-Alder,I got lucky and found an article about network locations, another "insanely great" feature of Mac OS X:
Using network locations (Mac OS X v10.6 and later) - Apple Support
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