
Disable AirPort when Ethernet cable is connected
March 9th, 2010 admin

At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I created a launchDaemon called com.companyname.ethernetmonitor , and saved it in /System
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