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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: foilpan on Aug 26, '05 10:18:20AM

what about using the new airport command line tool?

airport -I gives me this info.

no?



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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: chabig on Aug 26, '05 11:07:29AM

Where did that come from? I don't have an airport command line tool on my virgin Tiger system.



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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: merlyn on Aug 26, '05 11:08:03AM

localhost:~ % airport -I
zsh: command not found: airport
(Yes, the name of my box is "localhost". :-)

What version of OSX does this work on? Maybe it's OSX server only?

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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: eightball on Aug 26, '05 11:23:44AM

The airport command is here:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport



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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: Lankhmart on Aug 26, '05 11:27:04AM
The airport tool is located at:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport
as noted in this hint: Control a wireless card from the command line

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10.4: Get your Airport SSID from the commandline
Authored by: foilpan on Aug 26, '05 04:05:10PM

oh, right. i symlinked airport to that location like so:

/usr/local/bin/airport -> /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport

totally forgot about that...



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