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Re:Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues? by TeMPOraL on Friday December 09, 2022 @04:24AM (#33919359)
> I was able to somewhat disable AWDL by doing this like you suggest:

> sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en0 prefs AWDLEnabled=YES

Wait, why AWDLEnabled = YES? Is it like with those Cisco routers, where "do X" was usually done by negating "do inverse-of-X"? E.g. "no interface up foo" to bring down interface "foo".

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Re:Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues? by varenc on Friday December 09, 2022 @03:03PM (#33925852)
Sorry, you're 100% right. It should be AWDLEnabled=NO! (and was in my testing)

Also you can check what your current prefs by just not passing any args after `prefs`:

    sudo /usr/libexec/airportd en0 prefs
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Re:Recent Apple updates leading to WiFi issues? by InvaderFizz on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:42AM (#33921667)
I suspect that in this case, they're telling MacOS to use the physical Ethernet port for awdl, which can't do airtime slicing.

That prevents it from doing any WiFi direct things, but otherwise would leave it functional.

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