Tag: wifi
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Scripting disabling auto-join for Wi-Fi networks
What about a Wi-Fi profile? You may be thinking, “Why would I want to script disabling Wi-Fi auto-join, when I can just set it with a profile?” After all, in Apple’s MDM documentation, it seems that you can just do so, right? AutoJoin boolean If true, the device joins the network automatically. If false, the…
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Known Networks settings moved in Big Sur
In earlier (10.15 and lower) versions of macOS, Apple put the list of known networks in the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist file. In Big Sur (macOS 11.x), Apple moved the known networks to the /Library/Preferences/com.apple.wifi.known-networks.plist file.
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macOS command to add back Wi-Fi service
Acknowledgements: Hat tip to Eric Hemmeter on the MacAdmins Slack for this command. If you want a command that will add back the Wi-Fi service if you deleted it and now want it back, here it is: networksetup -createnetworkservice Wi-Fi en1 That’s assuming the output of networksetup -listallhardwareports has a hardware port of Wi-Fi with…