diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf.bb b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf.bb
index 6b9207c4cb..7959ed8e50 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://${COREBASE}/meta/files/common-licenses/GPL-2.0-only;m
 
 PR = "r2"
 
+SRC_URI = "file://main.conf \
+          "
+
 S = "${WORKDIR}"
 
 PACKAGE_ARCH = "${MACHINE_ARCH}"
@@ -14,6 +17,6 @@ FILES:${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/*"
 
 # Kernel IP-Config is perfectly capable of setting up networking passed in via ip=
 do_install:append:qemuall() {
-    mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/default
-    echo "export EXTRA_PARAM=\"-I eth0\"" > ${D}${sysconfdir}/default/connman
+    mkdir -p ${D}${sysconfdir}/connman
+    cp ${S}/main.conf ${D}${sysconfdir}/connman/main.conf
 }
diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf/main.conf b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf/main.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a394e8f25b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/connman/connman-conf/main.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[General]
+NetworkInterfaceBlacklist = eth0