Mystery menubar icon

[boston04and07]

Hey guys, so, the other day, a new icon appeared in my menubar and I have no idea what it is, or how to get rid of it. It looks like this: <...> and when I click on it, I get two menu options that read, "No PPPoE configurations were found" and "Open Network Preferences." Within Network Preferences I haven't found an option to get rid of this icon...anybody know how??

 

[EricNau]

Click it while holding holding the Cmd (apple) key, and drag it off of the menu bar. It should disappear in a "poof."

 

[TuffLuffJimmy]

It's possible that I'm mistaken, but I think that has something to do with a dial up connection, or ethernet.

 

[pepsipopup]

agreed.

Ericnau's reply will most likely work.

I'm probably wrong but it may be an application or preference panel that puts it there.





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[Nero Wolfe]

It's located in System > Library > Core Services > Menu Extras; it's called PPPoE.menu. And, yes, you can get rid of it using CMD+drag off the menu bar. It's probably put there by an app or service, unless you were clicking around the menu extras folder and enabled it by accident.

 

[WildCowboy]

The option to show the PPPoE menu bar item only shows up in the Network panel of System Preferences if you have a PPPoE connection set up. As long as you have that connection set up, it's easy to toggle it on and off. But if you delete the connection and leave the menu item up there, you'll have to use the Command-drag method to get rid of it.

 

[boston04and07]

Thanks everybody for your help! I completely forgot about the command-drag way to get rid of menubar icons, oops.

Happy holidays!