Exporting wifi configuration including preferred wireless networks.

Question

Hello experts,
I am new bee in Mac world therefore I am asking sample question. I am using Macbook Pro 10.6.4.
If I export Airport network configuration from Network preference then It exports only 802.1x configuration.
My questions are:
1. How to export network configuration including preferred wireless networks list like networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks <device name> command?
2. How to write .networkConnect file which should have preferred wireless networks list?
Regards,
Anand Choubey

Answer 1

Well , since this issue got seriously on my nervers and took me a day trying things out with no luck, i studied a bit of shell programming and wrote a script to configure my net on boot, copied it with the correct permissions in /etc/rc.d/    , added it in my daemons at rc.conf, and there you go! Net on boot finally : -).
#!/bin/sh
echo "sleeping to ensure network is up"
/bin/sleep 2
until [ "$(ifconfig wlan0 | grep -c "UP")" != "0" ]
do
echo "waiting for wlan0 interface to get UP"
/bin/sleep 2
done
echo "checking if wlan0 is associated "
while [ "$(iwconfig wlan0 | grep -c "Access Point: Not-Associated")" != "0" ]
do
$(iwconfig wlan0 essid Virus_Home)
echo "sleeping for 20 seconds to give hardware some time to associate "
/bin/sleep 20
done
exit 0
However i dont concider my solution  elegant , so if anyone can figure out why net doesnt get configured correctly on boot without my script i would love to know as well.
enjoy,
IMG