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by bc569a80a344f9c 360 days ago
Looking around briefly, you can replace it with this:

`networksetup -setairportpower en0 on && [... set MAC ...] && networksetup -setairportpower en0 off`

I think it's pretty safe to assume that modern Macs will always have en0 as the WiFi adapter, but if you wanted, you could use `networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder` to find the associated device.
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JonathonW 360 days ago
Modern Macs do not always have en0 as the WiFi adapter (it's en1 on current iMacs and on the Mac Studio; en0 is the ethernet jack).

But you're unlikely to be taking one of the machines that has built-in ethernet to the airport or coffeeshop.

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bc569a80a344f9c 360 days ago
Duh, also true on my Mac Mini. But yeah, “modern Mac laptops” probably makes the statement correct enough and still describes the entire set of targets.
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commandersaki 359 days ago
So this doesn't work if your wifi nic is associated with an SSID. `airport -z` disassociates the SSID.

Can't seem to find a CLI command to do the same in macOS 26, but I haven't looked too hard either.

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