@Maik Given that there is no information lost when you remove then add back a WiFi network using `network setup` I'm wondering why you are not doing that.
Here is some code that promotes a network to the top of the list :-
# discover device name of Wi-Fi network
WF=`networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep "Wi-Fi," | sed "s#^([^:]*:[^:]*:\ \([a-z0-9]*\))#\1#"`
if [ "$DEBUG" == "True" ] ; then
echo "Got WF: $WF"
fi
# promote Wi-Fi to top of service order
# build list of services
service_list=()
while read service; do
service_list+=("$service")
done < <(networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder | grep "Hardware Port" | \
grep -v "Wi-Fi" | sed 's#([^:]*:\ \([^,]*\),.*#\1#')
# do the promote
if [ "$DEBUG" == "True" ] ; then
echo "Set order to: ${service_list[@]}"
fi
networksetup -ordernetworkservices Wi-Fi "${service_list[@]}"
if [ "$DEBUG" == "True" ] ; then
echo "Order set"
fi
# promote MobileAnywhere to top of preferred WiFi networks
# note index starts at 0
networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork $WF MobileAnywhere > /dev/null
networksetup -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex $WF MobileAnywhere 0 WPA2 > /dev/null
if [ "$DEBUG" == "True" ] ; then
echo "MA promoted"
fi
You will notice that we don't need the password for the network to either remove it or add it back since this is in the Keychain.
The above code continues to work for me in Ventura as `networksetup` remains the same.
