New Silicon Labs USB Driver

[Bull Winkus]

According to my calculator app, 20% of nothing is still zippo. Still, the service was excellent, methinks.

Well then, it's settled! 20% from me, and  15% from Xair!

Do we have any more volunteers?

 

[Bull Winkus]

OK, I finally installed everything. New version OS X. New version WeatherCat. New version of Silicon Labs driver.

Note that I did not restart the computer after the USB driver install, but just checked System information as described below. It showed up as version 4.1.1. I still don't know for certain that a restart isn't necessary to use the new driver. I didn't quit WeatherCat during installation, and the software continued to communicate with nary a bump.

However, I look at it this way? It was working OK. It's still working OK. Before long, I'll be restarting for some other reason. I'm leaving it for now.

 

Herb

how did you run the uninstaller? And where can you see the version number for the driver?

Reinhard,

The uninstall script is built in the app (.pkg) as far as I know. There were no runtime messages to tell if it was successful.

To find your version number, head to "Software" and "Extensions" then scroll down to SILabsUSBDriver (see attached).



Good luck,
Alan

[awilltx]

Herb,

I didn't quit WeatherCat during installation, and the software continued to communicate with nary a bump.

Interesting. I would think you would have had at least one little blip of a comm error, but maybe you hit it just right!

And yes, eventually you will have to restart everything at some point, but it is good to know.

Alan

[Blicj11]

OK, I finally installed everything. New version OS X. New version WeatherCat. New version of Silicon Labs driver.
un the uninstaller? And where can you see the version number for the driver?

Herb, what OS X are you running?

[Bull Winkus]

OS X 10.10.3 now. Why do you ask, Blick?

 

[Blicj11]

I just want someone other than me to be the first upgrade to 10.10.3. 

[xairbusdriver]

I just want someone other than me to be the first upgrade to 10.10.3.

WIMP! Don't you want to be on "the bleeding edge"?!  Me neither... although I have been running the Yosemite ?etas... on the mini running WC. There have been a couple of reports from up-graders at Techsurvivor.net. I've simply been too busy to bother yet, although I did download the Combo and Delta installers, so, maybe next week. Only bleeding I do is at a regional blood collection agency, have an appointment in 30 minutes, smatter a fact!

[elagache]

Dear Herb, Blick, xairbusdriver, and WeatherCat "victims" of recent OS upgrades.

I just want someone other than me to be the first upgrade to 10.10.3. 

I'm still waitin' . . . .

Although the scuttlebutt from MacInTouch has been so far reporting no unexpected booby traps.

Cheers, Edouard 

[xairbusdriver]

no unexpected booby traps

That reminds me of the occasional "Your machine has just crashed due to an unexpected occurrence". So, you're saying some crashes are because of known booby traps?!

Seriously, I usually wait a week or two for updates, and usually at least a month for upgrades, always after as many back ups as I can stand! It's also good to remember that 90% of all reports will be about problems. Everybody likes to complain, not many of us talk about things working properly. I see it on most "news" programs; blood/murder/pain/loss sells!

I feel sure it's OK for you to make the update right now! Please let us know if you have any problems...

[Xipper]

Thanks for the headsup on this, and for everyone's piece of mind I just installed it on 10.10.4 (beta) without a reboot and no comm errors from the upgrade.  WeatherCat didn't even notice, and that is the magic of OS X and kernel modules (kextunload/kextload) vs the way Windows does driver management (reboot, twice)...

[Blicj11]

I just installed it on 10.10.4 (beta) without a reboot and no comm errors from the upgrade.  WeatherCat didn't even notice, and that is the magic of OS X and kernel modules (kextunload/kextload) vs the way Windows does driver management (reboot, twice)...

Nice to know; thanks for the post.

[LesCimes]

Geez, I can barely keep up with WC betas, let along Mac OS X betas. Appreciate knowing that the next update in OS X should go smoothly.

[glenwood]

Thanks xairbusdriver for referring me to this page and download.  Hope this solves my problems.