I’ve made a humanoids shape, and I want IKA’s to pose the ‘human’, but I can’t get the IKA system to work in Blender 2.32. I used to use Blender 2.25 all stuff, but I can’t open this file in Blender 2.25 (I build the human with a plug-inn, named Make Human 1.8)
for associating the armature with the mesh, pretty much make it (the armature) the parent, choose parent to armature (not bone or object) and tell it to create vertex groups, or at least that is a start
(with your bones selected in edit mode, make sure you set the right ones to have IK on and the correct ones to be skinned, null bones shouldn’t be skinned, and can be hidden (for when not in edit mode) there too)
there are a lot of tiny things about that, and it is quite painful, I don’t know of a tut on it