rjacks@austlcm.sps.mot.com (rodney jacks/vlk9) (02/09/91)
I recently purchased a Teleport modem from Global Village and encountered a compatibility problem with it and my Powerkey (by Sophisticated Circuits). There seems to be considerable interest in the Teleport recently so I thought I would post so that anyone who is considering purchasing one may avoid the problem and/or save some time isolating the problem. The problem I experienced was that the Teleport would not work with the Powerkey installed. With the Powerkey removed the modem worked just fine. When booting my SE30, there was no indication of any INIT conflict. Both the Teleport and the Powerkey require an INIT to be installed in order to operate. With the help of Sophisticated Circuits' Customer Support (Thanks - Charles and Amar -- Its nice to find customer support people who are actually helpful) the problem was found to be the 6.0.4 MacOS I was running on my machine. Apparently Version 6.0.5 fixed a lot of ADB bugs. After installing 6.0.5 everything works fine. So if you are considering purchasing the Teleport make sure you are running release 6.0.5! SIDE NOTE: Global Village also documented a similar conflict with Teleport and Powerkeys with serial numbers below 3000 (mine is SN#4905). Sophisticated Circuits will replace the earlier Powerkeys with a later model. -Rodney *********************************************************** ** Rodney Jacks ** ** Motorola Inc, Austin, Texas ** ** E-mail: rjacks@austlcm.sps.mot.com ** ** Time is just nature's way of keeping everything from ** ** happening all at once. ** ***********************************************************