How to disconnect from AirPort network WITHOUT turning off AirPort?

[Geoff Myers]

How can I disconnect from an AirPort network WITHOUT turning off (disabling) AirPort? Thanks.

 

[Eraserhead]

Connect to another, or just turn off airport and then turn it back on again.

 

[Sherman Homan]

I'm not sure what you want to do, but if your AirPort is handing out DHCP addresses, you could go to System --> Preferences --> Network --> turn Configure IPv4 off. That will take you off the network. But why?!

 

[bankshot]

In the Terminal, this long command will do it:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport -z

To get it connected again without going through the menu, just change the -z to -a.

 

[M@lew]

Try to d/c from within iStumbler and then reconnect?

 

[iHerzeleid]

Apple should make this easier to do. Windows definatly has an advantage on wireless network configurations.

 

[TEG]

Just connect to 'other', enter a '1', when it errors out, click ok, and you are all good. But, what is the logic in running you're AirPort without a network connected? You are better off just turning it off, as otherwise you are wasting energy.

TEG

 

[Eraserhead]

Apple should make this easier to do. Windows definatly has an advantage on wireless network configurations.

Why would you want to disconnect from a network without switching off wireless?

 

[Geoff Myers]

I'm using a program called SpoofMAC and it requires a hack to get it to work in Mac OS X 10.4.5 and above. What the application does is change your AirPort Extreme MAC address. However, for it to work, AirPort needs to be active but NOT connected to a network. My issue was that my computer automatically connected to the list of preferred networks. Thanks for the help!

 

[Celeron]

I'm using a program called SpoofMAC and it requires a hack to get it to work in Mac OS X 10.4.5 and above. What the application does is change your AirPort Extreme MAC address. However, for it to work, AirPort needs to be active but NOT connected to a network. My issue was that my computer automatically connected to the list of preferred networks. Thanks for the help!

Sounds like someone is going to be joining some wireless networks that he / she doesn't belong on.