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So I used to use this script from MacOSXHints to automatically toggle my Wi-Fi whenever I connected my OS X 10.6 and 10.8 MBPs into Ethernet or my 27" TB Display:

Ever been annoyed to be on both wireless AND wired network at the same time, without the opportunity to automatically disable AirPort when plugging in a cable?

Well this little script and launchd agent will auto-disable AirPort on active ethernet.

Since installing Mavericks on my new Late 2013 retina MBP 15, even after editing the interface names to the new system's (en5, for example) the script no longer works; I think that the old /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration folder is no longer used or working the same in Mavs as in previous releases..

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  • What about using the service order to decide whether to use Wi-Fi/Ethernet? – grg♦ Oct 31 '13 at 22:01
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    That will decide the active interface, sure; I'm interested in revising this script to actually toggle Wi-Fi power on/off based on the state of the Ethernet interface. Once you get used to it, it's practically barbaric to have to manually switch it again.. – da4 Oct 31 '13 at 22:08
  • Yes; I had been using ControlPlane for other system toggles, but version 1.4.0 seems to be buggy on 10.9. – da4 Nov 1 '13 at 15:48
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Have a look to a different script for the same purpose, but with a slightly different approach. It uses the same SystemConfiguration trigger, thus. The problem on Mavericks seem rather to be respawning the original script over and over by launchd. I'm successfully running it on Mavericks 10.9.3. The Script can be found here: http://www.computernetworkbasics.com/2012/12/automatically-turn-off-wireless-in-osx-including-mountain-lion/

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