Serial port disappeared?
For the past few years I've used a USB-to-serial adapter (IOGear GUC232A) to attach my old Garmin GPS unit to my Mac for uploads and downloads. Worked fine using LoadMyTracks (
http://www.cluetrust.com/LoadMyTracks.html).
In the LoadMyTracks window, there is a pop-up menu selector to choose the port the GPS unit is attached to. I believe it used to say "Serial Port" or "USB Serial Port" or somesuch. It always worked, so I didn't pay too much attention.
A week or so ago I tried to use iSync to sync my phone over Bluetooth. Didn't work, iSync connected to the phone but said it didn't complete some operation.
But apparently iSync created some virtual serial ports? And somehow erased the port the USB-Serial adapter used, even though that had nothing to do with Bluetooth. I went to the Bluetooth control panel and was able to delete most of the superfluous non-working Bluetooth serial ports (except there's one called "Bluetooth-PDA-Sync" that can't be deleted).
But now LoadMyTracks no longer displays a valid serial port. The only one shown in the pulldown menu is "Bluetooth-PDA-Sync", which of course doesn't provide access to the USB-Serial port adapter, and so I get "No GPS device found".
I tried reloading both the IOGear serial port adapter driver package as well as LoadMyTracks, but neither helped. (I also did a complete system maintenance with Onyx and rebooted, just in case).
How do I get my original serial port back?
In the LoadMyTracks window, there is a pop-up menu selector to choose the port the GPS unit is attached to. I believe it used to say "Serial Port" or "USB Serial Port" or somesuch. It always worked, so I didn't pay too much attention.
A week or so ago I tried to use iSync to sync my phone over Bluetooth. Didn't work, iSync connected to the phone but said it didn't complete some operation.
But apparently iSync created some virtual serial ports? And somehow erased the port the USB-Serial adapter used, even though that had nothing to do with Bluetooth. I went to the Bluetooth control panel and was able to delete most of the superfluous non-working Bluetooth serial ports (except there's one called "Bluetooth-PDA-Sync" that can't be deleted).
But now LoadMyTracks no longer displays a valid serial port. The only one shown in the pulldown menu is "Bluetooth-PDA-Sync", which of course doesn't provide access to the USB-Serial port adapter, and so I get "No GPS device found".
I tried reloading both the IOGear serial port adapter driver package as well as LoadMyTracks, but neither helped. (I also did a complete system maintenance with Onyx and rebooted, just in case).
How do I get my original serial port back?
Mac G4/500MHz/AGP/Sawtooth, Mac OS X (10.4.11), I really gotta get a faster system.
