I have an iAero (FW 1.30) and the 2.0.7 iBike2Mac application, with the latest USB driver installed, on a G4 PowerBook running OS X Leopard, 10.5.3.
I cannot get the Mac to talk to the iAero, no way, no how. The adapter is plugged directly into the USB port, the iAero is mounted and turned on, and I get no love.
I have some ride data to slurp off, prior to flashing to FW 1.31, but I can't even get that far.
I solved this problem accidentally, just now. I connected to the VPN at work, and got a dialog about a new network interface--the iAero's USB-to-serial adapter. I set up a null configuration for it in Network Preferences, and now the iAero works.
I am a life-long Mac user and I've been using my Mac with the iBike software since release 1.0.0 and with every release since then. No problems at any times.
I don't, however, use my Mac with a VPN.
Having answered hundreds of Windows tech support calls, I can tell you that they outnumber the Mac calls 99 to 1.
Please email me off-line and I'll put you in touch with the folks at Silicon Labs (the owners of the driver software). Perhaps they can figure out what is going on.
Well, I'm still stuck in limbo-land. Every once in awhile, my PowerBook will speak with my iAero, but most of the time, it won't.
(PowerBook G4, 1.67GHz, 2GB RAM, OS X Leopard, 10.5.4).
To see if it was just something goofy with that machine, I installed the USB drivers and the iBike software on the Intel-based iMac. Still no joy.
(20" iMac, Core2Duo, 2.16GHz, 3GB RAM, OS X Leopard, 10.5.4).
Of note, I seem to have had my spate of trouble with opening the iAero ever since upgrading to 10.5.3. I wonder if the SILabs driver needs some porting work for 10.5.3 and onward?
John, I can appreciate that Macs tend to be a lot less trouble than Windows machines. That's one major reason that I own Macs (the other being that I'm a dyed-in-the-wool UNIX guy). Nonetheless, I'm having problems. Travis has been helpful, but he's a busy guy.
I'd love to get to the bottom of this. As a point of interest, I dtruss'd iBike2Mac to see what was going on, and every syscall to the SLABtoUART driver succeeded, yet the app still spat out the "iBike is not responding" dialog. I sent the output to Travis.
I'm puzzled. Is there anyone else out there trying to use an iAero with a Mac that is running Leopard 10.5.3 or 10.5.4?
