Hide networkmanager device hardware name

Support & Help Requests
1

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can anyone tell me how to remove the long hardware device name info in the picture

2

Hi,

you appear to have 2 connections listed, if you don't use both of the Ethernet adaptors, delete one from network settings:

I hope it helps. :smiley:

3

Thanks for the response
Deleting a connection doesn’t help I’ve removed all but one connection and it still shows

is there no better way of removing the names in the configs

4

I don’t know to be honest, take a look at “Name resolution” here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/network-configuration.html#name-resolution

5

To change the network hardware device name in the network manager applet
would appear to require a source code change. From applet-device-ethernet.c

if (multiple_devices) {
		const char *desc;

		desc = nm_device_get_description (device);

		if (connections->len > 1)
			text = g_strdup_printf (_("Ethernet Networks (%s)"), desc);
		else
			text = g_strdup_printf (_("Ethernet Network (%s)"), desc);
	} else {
		if (connections->len > 1)
			text = g_strdup (_("Ethernet Networks"));
		else
			text = g_strdup (_("Ethernet Network"));
	}