How to remove network interface using CLI?

[nelly22]

If i run

ls /dev/cu.*

I see many extra usbmodem interfaces there but these are not in Network preference pane in System Preferences.

How i can remove these extra modems? Maybe some CLI magic?

 

[F1Mac]

If i run

ls /dev/cu.*

I see many extra usbmodem interfaces there but these are not in Network preference pane in System Preferences.

How i can remove these extra modems? Maybe some CLI magic?

I don't see them in my /dev but may I ask why you'd want to remove these antiquities? They're probably never used anyway and are less than 200 bytes... They're harmless. Now that I think of it how come I don't have them? Oh well...

 

[cloudydayagain]

I don't see them in my /dev but may I ask why you'd want to remove these antiquities? They're probably never used anyway and are less than 200 bytes... They're harmless. Now that I think of it how come I don't have them? Oh well...

I try to install modem. When i connect it to Mac, Network preferences don't show "new modem detected" dialog at all. These old modem entries are related to that modem so i need to delete these first.

 

[F1Mac]

I try to install modem. When i connect it to Mac, Network preferences don't show "new modem detected" dialog at all. These old modem entries are related to that modem so i need to delete these first.

It is really NOT recommended to delete any of the /dev files. I suspect the reason it's not detected is because the correct device hasn't been created - deleting the others won't change that.

 

[cloudydayagain]

It is really NOT recommended to delete any of the /dev files. I suspect the reason it's not detected is because the correct device hasn't been created - deleting the others won't change that.

These bad modems are Arduino board and now "ls" shows four modem entries but zero in Network preferences. I would like to delete these using CLI or something and then connect Arduino again so it shows up in Network preferences.