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Auto-disable AirPort when ethernet is active
Authored by: daniil on Oct 26, '13 01:50:53AM

I was using this script and enjoying it. However, when upgrading to Mavericks 10.9, the script caused the wifi connection to be dropped constantly. So, just a warning: don't use this with Mavericks.



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Auto-disable AirPort when ethernet is active
Authored by: HappyPig on Nov 02, '13 05:00:05PM

If only google had turned up Daniil's comment two weeks ago. I just spent those weeks with a Level 3 Apple Wifi specialist trying to troubleshoot why my Macbook Air was dropping it's connection every ten seconds.

It turns out it was this stupid script that was installed on a previous Macbook, forgotten about, then migrated over. And then the ticking script bomb went off in 10.9, and had me going nuts trying to figure out what happened.

So yeah, this script is deadly for Wifi under 10.9. If it helps the next victim track this down via Google, error -3903 kept showing up in the console during the disconnects.

Now I'm off to one-star the heck out of this hint.



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Auto-disable AirPort when ethernet is active
Authored by: tbussmann on Jul 16, '14 01:10:43AM

possibly, this is caused by launchdeamon respawning the script. I use a similar method (see http://www.computernetworkbasics.com/2012/12/automatically-turn-off-wireless-in-osx-including-mountain-lion/ ) where the author added a "sleep 10" at then end for this reason (see discussion)



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