The Networks applet in KDE Plasma has recently started showing a Wired Ethernet connection called “lo” which wasn’t appearing there before. I don’t have an Ethernet cable connected to my laptop, and have no idea what’s causing it. Anyone got any clues? [Screenshot_20230216_133809] I can’t disconn…

You can try this: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/unmanaged.conf [keyfile] unmanaged-devices=interface-name:lo Then reboot (c) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=2084565#p2084565 But please do your research on networkmanager unmanaged first - i have no clue how this works and if such confi…

[image] Cabled ethernet connection autocreated General system It’s not a bug, it’s a new feature : Managing the loopback interface Because of the loopback interface’s somewhat unique characteristics, NetworkManager traditionally treated it specially. That basically meant…

Ah okay, yes that makes a lot of sense. I realised after hitting “send” that this was Lo rather than IO, and then it began to make sense to me that it was the loopback ie. 127.0.0.1. The next question is rather obvious… how do I stop it from appearing? I don’t really care that it exists and kind of …

[image] dylanparry: The next question is rather obvious… how do I stop it from appearing? I don’t really care that it exists and kind of take it for granted that it’s there in the first place :smile: Ahh…I don’t think you can, i just ignore it personally :man_shrugging: But let’s see maybe s…

The problem for me was I first noticed it yesterday when I had taken my laptop to a coffee shop and wanted to connect to a WiFi network that wasn’t my home one, which obviously happens automatically so I don’t pay much attention to it. Straight away when clicking the Network applet I thought “uh oh,…

[image] dylanparry: and got a little paranoid seeing as I was using my laptop in public :joy: That’s the right instinct btw, public wi-fi by any definition is NOT safe idea, coz it’s very easy for hackers to sniff such traffic by just being connected to the same network…If you want to be safe…

Yep, totally agree. That’s actually what I ended up doing in the end anyway as for some bizarre reason the WiFi was blocking my SSH connections :roll_eyes:

[image] dylanparry: as for some bizarre reason the WiFi was blocking my SSH connections :roll_eyes: Oh you h4xXx0r were up to no good with SSH ain’t you?! :rofl: [honka_animated-128px-46]

Yeah, up to no good, pushing my code to GitHub :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

[image] keybreak: You can try this: /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d/unmanaged.conf [keyfile] unmanaged-devices=interface-name:lo Then reboot I had the same! I created the file with that line, rebooted and it’s gone! It was funny to have this “lo” Thanks @keybreak EDIT: I did not [image…

Thanks for that. Looks like it works (and the loopback still works too) :tada:

Wired Ethernet: Connected to Io

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keybreak February 16, 2023, 1:46pm 2