Comments on: airport – the Little Known Command Line Wireless Utility

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:52:19 +0000

Does anyone know a command to remove a client wireless from my network? For example an iPhone from somebody that use my network wireless. Thanks for help

By: Mac OS X

Mac OS X — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 06:04:45 +0000

[...] Networking is pretty straightforward, and has its own command line utility, airport. [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 07 May 2012 10:20:26 +0000

I’m using lion and couldn’t get this or the -A to work, any ideas?

By: Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X

Find & Scan Wireless Networks from the Command Line in Mac OS X — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:39:42 +0000

[...] long hidden airport command line utility buried deep in Mac OS X can be used to scan for and find available wireless [...]

By: ed

ed — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:12:56 +0000

does anyone know a way to lock my wifi card of my macbook air to use (a) only ?

on my PC I can change the driver settings of my wifi card to use 5.2ghz only and i would love to be able to the same on my mac.

I want to do this because at my work there are multiple repeaters.

By: JohnAnthony

JohnAnthony — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 04:08:00 +0000

Awesome tipp

By: Paco

Paco — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 18:31:03 +0000

If you know the SSID name (even if it is not broadcasted) you can see in which devices is: airport -s namenobroadcasted

By: gurgan

gurgan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:12:38 +0000

If you could please share that script for having airport connect pre-login, that would be awesome. I need airport to be connected at login so I can access network accounts. Silly Apple.

By: nono

nono — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:00:53 +0000

Note that at least on 10.6, many airport infos are available when clicking on regular menubar airport icon with “Alt” key pressed.
One of the many eastern egg embedded by Apple through ages!

By: Do It Scared! » Blog Archive » Migrating from Windows XP to Mac OS X, Part 2

Thu, 13 Oct 2011 07:42:14 +0000

[...] OS X comes with a nifty little known command line wireless utility. To enable easy access to it, run the following to put it in the command line’s search path: [...]

By: WifiAdminGuy

WifiAdminGuy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 18:00:11 +0000

Signal Strength is the “RSSI” field. It is in units of dB. Since we’re in power, when you double the signal strength you will see a 3 dB increase. Same with average signal level.

(truth: I’m guessing this is dB because all the linux driver wifi code I have seen reports that all major cards report in dB)

By: WifiAdminGuy

WifiAdminGuy — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:52:35 +0000

This is freakin’ awesome. Thanks for finding and posting this. I wish I had known about this sooner.

By: Airport Scanner at hubionmac.com

Airport Scanner at hubionmac.com — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 23:26:18 +0000

[...] osxdaily hat auch noch diese Zeile hier zum Besten gegeben, um einen einfacheren Aufruf zu gewährleisten: sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport Danach kennt das Terminal ein airport-Kommando =) [...]

By: Finding the BSSID of the Access Point your Macintosh is connected to | RedNectar's Blog

Tue, 19 Jul 2011 05:50:32 +0000

[...] command) that would let me see which AP I had associated with. After some digging around I found this webpage that told me that there is indeed a command (very well hidden) right there in the OS. For some [...]

By: Mactard Shortbus

Mactard Shortbus — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 10:03:17 +0000

Once again, Mac’s needlessly restrictive and retarded ‘Think Different’ meets up with BSD’s obsessive ‘stability’ and buries the command to print wireless info behind, what, seven directories? Why is ifconfig in $PATH but ‘airport’ (seriously? seriously? does the wireless make the computer fly? WTF?) is not? Why is ssh in $PATH but airport isn’t? Why is it that people smart enough to design with global menus, autohiding docks, multi-touchpads and the best laptop shell (the case, not the UI) ever don’t realize that wireless access is almost a necessity for enterprise and personal computer use in this day and age and that, silly me, I thought that it would be ‘faster’ to use a terminal than GUI to learn my wife’s work machine’s MAC address so we could fix the damn network.

Of course, I realize the answer to my question is “because designers make terrible engineers and engineers make even worse designers” but I, like, thought they ‘Think Different’ out in Cupertino.