Apr 05, '07 07:30:00AM • Contributed by: Sven G
I know there are Mac users out there like me who are complaining that Nokia does not have a Nokia PC Suite for Macs (or Nokia ‘Mac' Suite). I don't want to get into a Mac versus PC argument, but it should be made available even if we are only a small percentage of the market. So far, we resort to the iSync plugin to synchronize just the contacts and the calendar. The Nokia PC Suite offers a lot more. Fortunately, nothing is impossible. There is a way to use the Nokia PC Suite on the Mac.You'll need to download the usbfix.sh script from the above link to your home folder, make it executable (chmod 755 usbfix.sh), and then do this in the OS X Terminal:
sudo sh usbfix.sh
This temporarily unloads some conflicting USB kernel extensions, until the next reboot. Full details are available at the above-linked blog entry, of course.
One could maybe even write a script which reloads the same extensions, if necessary, after having ended the VirtualPC or Parallels session: just edit the usbfix.sh script in TextEdit, replace all the kextunload entries with kextload, and save it with another name, i.e. usbreload.sh.
Anyway, I have tried it in VirtualPC 7.0.2 on a Mac OS X 10.4.9 PowerPC, with the latest Nokia PC Suite and a Nokia 6630 phone connected through the USB cable: it works, even if sometimes the connection seems to drop. On a PowerPC Mac, of course, it is rather slow! Now, if only one could use also the Bluetooth connection through VPC...
