Comments on: Enable and Disable AirPort Wireless from the Command Line in Mac OS X

By: Set MTU Size from the Command Line of Mac OS X

Set MTU Size from the Command Line of Mac OS X — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 20:13:12 +0000

[...] flag again to verify the number. For the change to actually take effect, you will probably want to cycle the wi-fi connection off and on which can also be done through networksetup, though that isn’t always necessary. [...]

By: Domi

Domi — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:42:15 +0000

What a dope.

By: umoh

umoh — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:47:13 +0000

i have tried all these command on my imac but i keep getting “You cannot set AirPort power because all AirPort network services are disabled.” please help i really need my airport card to work. thanks

By: drumrobot

drumrobot — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 04:25:03 +0000

Thanks ib!

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 03:24:58 +0000

can u help me?

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 21:47:11 +0000

I have the enabling Airport software from Apple, but it won’t install. My machine is a dual boot Hackintosh with the Netgear WN311B wireless card. I’ve read that it IS possible to get it to work but when I run the downloaded installer, it won’t install. I wondered if you knew how to fix this

By: ib

ib — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:59:57 +0000

Use the hardware name instead of airport in Lion
networksetup -setairportpower en1 on|off

By: xf

xf — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:47:52 +0000

This doesn’t seem to work in Lion DP3, airport is not yet defined as an airport interface, ironically.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 04:22:08 +0000

“Instead of using the menu item”
Yes, because it is soooooooo complex to do………

“The AirPort wireless card seems to respond faster to the command line”
Open the terminal, write the commands……
Yes I agree it is very faster than to make a simple click in the menu bar………

lol

By: Brozoner

Brozoner — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:46:28 +0000

The power cycling tip is nice, I hate manually selecting to turn on and off in the menu or CP, takes fooooooooorever