setAiportNetwork.sh

I re-worked the script a bit here and just wanted to share.

http://macmule.com/2011/09/09/how-to-turn-off-wireless-card/

MacMule created a script on his site to turn airport off and I took some of what he wrote concerning 10.7 and added it to this script. I only have 10.6 and 10.7 clients here.

Feedback needed and the outcome is that maybe we can create a new setAirportNetwork.sh script that works with every OS and have it added here

if [[ "$OS" == "10.6" ]]; then
    echo "Setting airport SSID to $SSID..."
    /usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportnetwork AirPort "$SSID" "$password"
else
    checkWireless=$(networksetup -listallhardwareports | egrep "Hardware Port: (Air|Wi-)" | cut -c 16-)
    # First we need to get the Wi-Fi device's name
    wifiDevice=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -listallhardwareports | awk '/^Hardware Port: Wi-Fi/,/^Ethernet Address/' | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -c 9-`
    echo "Setting airport SSID to" $SSID
    /usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportnetwork "$wifiDevice" "$SSID" "$password"
fi

glad i could help :)

In 10.7 Apple changed the Airport Card to "Wi-Fi", it is better to build an array of enabled services first, then pass them through the script. This is just my opinion.

-Tom

You could also try this:

#!/bin/sh

# Set the SSID variable to your wireless network name
# to set the network name you want to connect to.
SSID=

# Set the SECURITY variable to the security type of the
# wireless network (NONE, WEP, WPA, WPA2, WPAE or
# WPA2E) Setting it to NONE means that it's an open
# network with no encryption.
SECURITY=

# If you've set the SECURITY variable to something other than NONE,
# set the password here. For example, if you are using WPA
# encryption with a password of "thedrisin", set the PASSWORD
# variable to "thedrisin" (no quotes.)
PASSWORD=

# Determines which OS the script is running on
OS=`/usr/bin/sw_vers | grep ProductVersion | cut -c 17-20`

# On 10.7, the Wi-Fi interface needs to be identified
wifiDevice=`/usr/sbin/networksetup -listallhardwareports | awk '/^Hardware Port: Wi-Fi/,/^Ethernet Address/' | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -c 9-`

if [ "${OS}" = "10.7" ]; then
    echo "Setting airport SSID to" $SSID
    /usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportnetwork $wifiDevice $SSID $SECURITY $PASSWORD
else
    echo "Setting airport SSID to $SSID..."
    /usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportnetwork AirPort $SSID $SECURITY $PASSWORD 
fi

This is how I would do it. This is written on the fly, use at own risk, test, test, test, etc.

#!/bin/bash

# determine OS Version

OSvers=$(/usr/bin/sw_vers -productVersion)

case ${OSvers} in

    10.6* ))`/usr/sbin/networksetup my-10.6-commands`;;
    10.7* ))`/usr/sbin/networksetup my-10.7-commands`;;
esac

exit 0

Thanks for all the feed back! What shall we do? Case or if else, best way to rewrite this so everyone can use it, and have it support 10.4 up ? Or just 10.5 and up

Thanks

Thanks for all the feed back! What shall we do? Case or if else, best way to rewrite this so everyone can use it, and have it support 10.4 up ? Or just 10.5 and up

Thanks

Thanks for all the feed back! What shall we do? Case or if else, best way to rewrite this so everyone can use it, and have it support 10.4 up ? Or just 10.5 and up

Thanks

Thanks for all the feed back! What shall we do? Case or if else, best way to rewrite this so everyone can use it, and have it support 10.4 up ? Or just 10.5 and up

Thanks

Correct, as far as I can tell the code:

sw_vers -productVersion

works on 10.4, 10.5, 10.6, and 10.7. Just verified on my old 10.4 box which acts as a file server

Odin:~ sadmin$ sw_vers
ProductName:    Mac OS X Server
ProductVersion: 10.4.11
BuildVersion:   8S169
Odin:~ sadmin$ sw_vers -productVersion
10.4.11
Odin:~ sadmin$

So, you could write a case statement and wild card the OS version from 10.4 to 10.7 and then apply the proper code.

-Tom

looks good to me and you seem to have covered your bases on it. I'd say toss this in the resource kit, errrr or whatever the resource kit is going to be now.

So should work then, 10.4 and 10.5 use airport ??

Yes, Airport used to be the standard service name for the wireless card in OS X until 10.7.

I'd be tempted to condense the main section down to the following (explanation below):

OS=/usr/bin/sw_vers -productVersion | /usr/bin/cut -d "." -f 1,2

case $OS in
10.[4-5]) logger -t $0 "Setting airport SSID to" $SSID System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -z -A"$SSID" –password="$password" ;;
10.[6-7]) deviceName=networksetup -listallhardwareports | egrep -A 1 "Hardware Port: (Air|Wi-)" | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}' logger -t $0 "Setting airport SSID to" $SSID /usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportnetwork $deviceName "$SSID" "$password" ;;
esac

The script will error on 10.4. networksetup lives in a different place prior to Leopard
/System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Support/networksetup

If you only want that command for 10.7 then run that in the case statement. Saying that, it doesn't seem to be doing anything.

I would also be tempted to replace the line
OS=/usr/bin/sw_vers -productVersion | /usr/bin/colrm 5
with
OS=/usr/bin/sw_vers -productVersion | cut -d "." -f 1,2

Maybe we wont get to 10.10, but if we do then this script would break with the above line.

As you are explicitly limiting the variable OS, then you don't need the * in each of the case statements

so

10.4)
10.5)
etc instead and in fact you can use ranges, so

10.[4-5])

I also believe you can use the device name on both 10.6 and 10.7

I've also chosen to write to system.log instead of using echo!

Oh yeah I totally forgot in 10.4 networksetup was in a way different place, also the binary has had many updates so make sure the code works on each system.