How do you create an Airport service remotely?

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I have been scouring the net for over an hour and can't find an anwser as to how to create an Airport network service using the command line. If I use 

networksetup listallnetworkservices
Bluetooth DUN
Ethernet
local

the airport service is obviously not there. If I use ARD and manually create the Airport service I see

networksetup listallnetworkservices
Bluetooth DUN
Ethernet
local
Airport

So the question is how to create it from the command line?

tgunr

Posted 2011-05-13T21:51:43.433

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Answers

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Use networksetup -createnetworkservice Foobar en1

Usage: networksetup -createnetworkservice <newnetworkservicename> <hardwareport>
Create a service named on port . The new service will be enabled by default.

(you might want to replace Foobar with AirPort though)

Result:

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Daniel Beck

Posted 2011-05-13T21:51:43.433

Reputation: 98 421

Some Macs don't use en1 for the wifi device. Check Apple documentation for your device. – Daniel Beck – 2011-05-14T14:02:04.493

Actually this worked quite well: networksetup -createnetworkservice Airport Airport – tgunr – 2011-05-14T18:38:54.557

Asked: 2011-05-13T21:51:43.433

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