How to disable Airport via Terminal?

I need to disable Airport from Terminal because I have a bunch of G4 iBooks that kernel panic upon login unless booted in safe mode. But in safe mode Airport IS off (that's part of why I suspect it's causing the KPs) - so I can't use System Preferences to 'turn it off' so that it remains off upon normal restart. All of these machines are running OS 10.4.x.
At Mac OS X Hints, I found Enable and disable Airport from the command line which would be perfect - however when I use this command (sudo ifconfig en1 down), the result is "interface en1 does not exist".
In safe mode, System Preferences, I CAN delete the Airport configuration - but that's an 'undoable' action & I'm not sure it's wise. Any suggestions?

Thanks, twtwtw. I know that at least some of these machines were not cloned, because some of the system versions predate the first image I used for that purpose. Some probably were cloned, but they operated for a couple of years before this began.
The (safe mode) output is:
admin$ ifconfig
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
        inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
        inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
gif0: flags=8010<POINTOPOINT,MULTICAST> mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0<> mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        ether 00:14:51:9c:dc:d2
        media: autoselect (none) status: inactive
        supported media: none autoselect 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex,hw-loopback> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <full-duplex,hw-loopback>

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