MacBook Pro Wi-Fi stopped working

Greetings all.

Yesterday, while in use, my MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) running Big Sur 11.7.10 (20G1427), disconnected from the Wi-Fi. I've been looking online for a solution, but so far no luck.

What i tried:

  • PRAM reset
  • SMC reset
  • New User
  • Safe Mode
  • Delete and than add back Wi-Fi service in System Preferences/Network

After I deleted it I couldn't add it back, Wi-Fi does not appear as possible interface


  • From the terminal i tried:
 % networksetup -setairportpower en0 off
en0 is not a Wi-Fi interface.
** Error: Error obtaining wireless information.

Same for en1 and en2

I than tried:

sudo ifconfig en1 up

It gave no messages but also didn't change en1, tried with down and up, also for en2


  • I deleted some of the .plist files in the library as suggested in this article, it didn't solved my problems but after this my ifconfig changed:


en2 is now the Bluetooth PAN that im using to connect to internet. Still no Airport

~ % sudo networksetup -listallhardwareports                                                



Hardware Port: Bluetooth PAN

Device: en2

Ethernet Address: 34:36:3b:ce:86:f9



Hardware Port: Thunderbolt 1

Device: en0

Ethernet Address: 82:0f:21:5b:68:40



Hardware Port: Thunderbolt 2

Device: en1

Ethernet Address: 82:0f:21:5b:68:41



Hardware Port: Thunderbolt Bridge

Device: bridge0

Ethernet Address: 82:0f:21:5b:68:40



VLAN Configurations

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and I get this:

 ~ % networksetup -setairportpower en0 on                

You cannot set Wi-Fi power because all AirPort network services are disabled.


I guess the problem could also be the Hardware, i checked the Wi-Fi card and seems well connected.

System Information gives me this:


A last curiosity, with the Wi-Fi turned off the symbol remain with the 3 curved stripes instead of the "quarter of a circle" that use to be.



Any help or tip is appreciated!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Nov 5, 2023 10:42 AM

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Nov 5, 2023 6:38 PM in response to zeno21

You can try holding option while you click on the Wi-Fi icon on the menubar. Then select Open Wireless Diagnostics, and in the window that opens click (Continue). Just takes a few minutes if it is going to work.


Whether that works with Wi-Fi grayed out I do not know.


NB>> DON"T Click 'Proceed to summary' -- that creates a HUGE Dump of every setting in your Mac, to be sent to an Apple Network Engineer. There is no human-readable content.

Mar 10, 2024 2:13 PM in response to zeno21

Any Luck in this?

I am also facing same problem with my MBP Late 2013, I done system diagnosis report and there is no hardware issues showed in the report, so when I did factory reset and get back to base OS (Mavericks) i was able to access my WIFI(I used it for several days), but when I tried to update OS to Catalina and Big Sur both time my WIFI got disabled and even after trying solutions you mentioned above I am not able to bring it back working, so what should I do is there any fix for this in Big Sur?? kindly late me know if you have any solution for this, Thanks in advance!

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