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Enable and disable Airport from the command line
Is there a way to do this with the modem? I have an iMac which I use as an airport software base station, and it connects via dial up. From time to time, the connection dies. When it does, I'd love to be able to tunnel in via ssh, and reactivate the connection.
Enable and disable Airport from the command line
The same commands should work with modem. The problem is, once the modem is re-enabled (you may or may not need to disable and enable it), you need to make it dial again. Since I use my dialup modem an average of once a year, I haven't bothered to find out how to do this from the command line, but I'd be shocked if there wasn't a way to do it. It's unix! there has to be a way...
Enable and disable Airport from the command line
Two notes.
First, this command works fine for an Airport card, as well. It is not just limited to Airport Extreme cards, as the hint somewhat implies. Second, this command does not work correctly on the modem. System Profiler shows the interface for the modem as being named 'modem.' However, try that, and you get:
On my system, at least,
Perhaps the modem corresponds to one of these interfaces? |
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