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Daystar Turbo 601

Posted by: pondosinatra on 2013-02-17 09:33:05 Hmmmm.....it crashes when I run System Profiler, and check on Devices. This is a known problem with the Turbo 601, and there are patches for both OS 8 and OS 8.5. Anyone have a solution for it not crashing on OS 8.6?

Posted by: pondosinatra on 2013-02-18 07:57:52 I got it hooked up to the Internet - verified my Asante card is running at 100Mbps. Then I installed iCab 3.0.5 which is the PPC version supported under 8.6 and surfed the web! Note, while everything else is fairly snappy, surfing the web is slooooow. Even slower than my 040 based Color Classic running 8.1.

Posted by: Brooklyn on 2013-02-18 11:11:00 Agreed on the Web being slow. I've found Netscape to be snappier, while losing some compatibility.

Posted by: trag on 2013-02-21 13:57:00 Not strictly on topic, but did you have any issues with the Asante card? I installed an AsanteFast 10/100 card in a PM8100 a few years ago and couldn't get it to work, and then was distracted before I could try various OSs and such.

Posted by: pondosinatra on 2013-02-21 17:28:26 Just ran the Installer, restarted and set the Networking options to use Ethertalk, told it to use DHCP and that was it. The one issue I had is that when you run the Installer, it will only install from the floppy. And the floppy has to be named exactly like it wants - complete with French accente character and copyright character. I found an obscure post Googling that had the right character codes embedded in the post, pasted it into Textpad and then copied it to the floppy name.

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