Renaming or removing network interfaces

Hi,

I need to remove the en1 interface that Tiger assigned to a wireless pc card. So far I've done the following, but the OS refuses to remove the interface:

a) removed/uninstalled the IOXperts driver that the card uses; rebooted, no joy;
b) edited /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist; rebooted, en1 still there;
c) saved a backup file, then trashed the file above; rebooted, still no go.
d) tried "sudo ifconfig en2 remove"; that didn't work as well.

ifconfig(8) informs me correctly that the interface is already gone; it's the GUI that stubbornly still lists it as a network option. I never realized this wasn't trivial like it is in the BSDs.

Any pointers appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

PowerBook G3 2000/Firewire/Pismo/400, 9.2.2, 10.4.11, OpenBSD 4.5-current

Posted on Jul 10, 2009 8:21 PM

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Jul 10, 2009 9:31 PM in response to olaj

Besides Camelot's great advice...

Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), it will try to repair your Disk Directory while the spinning radian is happening, so let it go, run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, then Trash these 2 files...

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist

Reboot & set things up again.

Jul 10, 2009 10:26 PM in response to BDAqua

Camelot: Didn't work. en1 still shows in Network Status, although there's no card in the slot and its entry is greyed out/unchecked.

BDAqua: I'll try this later.

Thanks, guys. I'll update when things look up. The goal has changed, though. Initially it was to remove any remnant of PC-Card networking completely; but I figured I can live with it, but want to rename en1 (pccard) to en2 and en2(airport) to en1. Is there a quick way to do this? I need to do that to weave an airport-equipped 'book into the network without much reassigning/reconfiguring on the router side.

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