Channel hopping/setting no longer works on macOS Sonoma 14.4.1+

[jsonpoindexter]

Channel hopping/setting no longer works on macOS Sonoma 14.4.1+ due to airport being deprecated

Environment

• Bettercap version: v2.32.0 (built for darwin arm64 with go1.21.1)
• OS version and architecture: macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 / ARM64

Steps to Reproduce

NOTE: assumes the last channel set was anything other than the channel used in this example (6) as this is to show that channels cannot be changed.

1. Start bettercap with proper interface

sudo ./bettercap -iface en0 

2. Set the wireless channel to 6

wifi.recon.channel 6

3. Start wireless recon

wifi.recon on

Expected behavior: Channel should be set to '6'

Actual behavior: The channel is not changed to '6' and is still on the previous channel (in my example '1')

Analysis

net_darwin.go for macOS systems relies on the use of airport command to set the interface's channel.

As of macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 the airport command has been deprecated, is none-functional, and will only return a warning when attempting to run any commands.

The command used to set an interface's channel via this line
Example:

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport -c6

will now not change the interface's channel and will instead only return the warning message:

WARNING: The airport command line tool is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
For diagnosing Wi-Fi related issues, use the Wireless Diagnostics app or wdutil command line tool.

[sofakng]

macOS is quite frustrating.

Are there any solutions?

[sudo-nano]

I've reproduced this bug on an M1 Macbook Air, MacOS Sonoma 14.4.