I have a Mac G3 Powerbook without serial ports and want to run the Polar software with IR interface. How can I do this?
(Bill Pence) Use the Keyspan High Speed Serial to USB adapter and the serial version of the IR receiver from Polar. You need to be running Virtual PC 5.0 and Windows 2000. The Mac OS needs to be 9.2, as 9.1 does not seem to work too well with VPC, nor does OSX (OS 10). Ive run the Polar PPP under VPC 3.0, which worked fine, but the IR adapter didnt work. I found that I needed to upgrade my device driver to Keyspan V 1.9. Finally, I needed to plug the Keyspan Serial Port adapter into a USB port on the back of my G3 for some reason it was not happy plugging into the spare USB port on the keyboard. I have not been able to make the USB IR interface work with this setup, but serial port works just fine the way I have it set up now with my S-710. After that it is a matter of setting all of the dialog boxes correctly. With the IR adapter plugged into Port 2 of the adapter, the Keyspan Control panel it will advise you of the devices attached. Click Advanced Settings for more detail. Pull down
