Joel relayed why earlier in the thread.

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Gary L. Gray <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thank you for the quick reply -- I have been at a conference and I am
> finally catching up on email.
>
> It appears that the choice in that gear menu (at least under 10.6.3)
> is "Make Service Inactive" and this seems to do the trick. With that
> said, do you happen to know why are these new machines are repeatedly
> polling the Ethernet port? My previous MBP was from 2 or 3 generations
> ago and it did not do this.
>
> Thank you for your help.
>
> -- Gary
>
>
> On May 8, 2:14 pm, Joelw135 <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The problem is not with Growl, it is that the MacBook Pro is
> > constantly polling the Ethernet port. The only way to prevent this is
> > go to system preferences / Networking / Highlight the Ethernet port
> > then at the bottom is the gear click the gear and choose disable port.
> > Understand if you use a wired network you will have enable the port
> > again.
> >
> > On May 8, 1:54 pm, "Gary L. Gray" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I upgrading to one of the new MacBook Pros yesterday and not Hardware
> Growler keeps putting up the following notifications every minute or two:
> >
> > > It never did this with my old machine and I don't see anything in the
> Console when this happens. I have quit Hardware Growler for now since I
> couldn't take the constant messages, but I would love to know how to remedy
> this since I find Hardware Growler to be invaluable. Any thoughts?
> >
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > > Gary L. Gray
> >
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