Control a wireless card from the shell: “”
Mac OSX Hints has a quick tip on using the (somewhat hidden) airport command to manually manipulate the airport settings. This tool is called airport.
I played around for a few minutes and was pleasantly surprised.
[I’ve edited the output below so it fits, but you should take a look at what it all does under the hood.
$ cd /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources
$ ./airport --help
airport AirPort v.421.13 (421.13.0)
Supported arguments:
-a --autojoin
-p --applyprefs
-u --updateprefs
-z --disassociate
-i --ibss=
-f --file=
-m --mac=
-x --xml
-h --help
-o --oldencrypt=
-s --scan=
-r --repeats=
-A --associate=
-I --getinfo
-P --psk=
-S --showstack
--bssid=
--channel=
--password=
--property=
--ssid=
Consider adding a softlink to your local bin.
(Via macosxhints.com.)