Fix: Add Wi-Fi toggle workaround for macOS Sonoma 14.4+ (#43) #48
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On macOS Sonoma 14.4 and later the airport command line tool no longer works. It was being used to disassociate from any wireless networks, a required step before using `ifconfig` to change the MAC address. Now the only way to directly disassociate is with Apple's CoreWLAN framework in Swift or Objective-C. A workaround for this JS-only package is to just turn off the airport device to disassociate from any networks, then turn it back on so we can change the MAC address. The change is able to occur before the airport device reassociates. This should be backwards compatible with older versions of macOS.
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Fixes #43.
On macOS Sonoma 14.4 and later the airport command line tool no longer works. It was being used to disassociate from any wireless networks, a required step before using
ifconfigto change the MAC address. Now the only way to directly disassociate is with Apple's CoreWLAN framework in Swift or Objective-C.A workaround for this JS-only package, based on multiple comments on #43, is to just turn off the airport device to disassociate from any networks, then turn it back on so we can change the MAC address. The change is able to occur before the airport device reassociates. This should be backwards compatible with older versions of macOS.
Tested on macOS Sequoia 15.3.2 for Wi-Fi (en0). Not currently able to test for wired interfaces (don't have my ethernet adapter on me) but don't see why it wouldn't work.