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    AST RESEARCH, INC.        TECHNICAL BULLETIN # 1766          10/07/97

    TITLE:  Madge Card Socket Utility and CardBus

    ISSUE

       When attempting to configure an Ascentia P70, an Ascentia P/80,
       or an Ascentia A+ system with the MADGECS.EXE utility, the
       following message will appear:

         "The controller has not been assigned legal bus
         numbers by the bios, Madgecs not installed."

       This issue affects all Ascentia P70, Ascentia P80, and Ascentia
       A+ systems.

    BACKGROUND

       N/A

    ACTION

       Download the file CARDBUS.EXE from the AST WEBSITE.

       Copy files QTCFG.COM and MADGECS.CFG (included in the executable)
       into the same directory as the MADGECS.EXE utility supplied by
       Madge.

       This action will allow the system to assign the legal bus numbers
       to the CardBus controller for proper PC card configuration.

       In order for the MADGECS.EXE utility to load, make sure that
       QTCFG.COM is loaded before MADGECS.EXE.

       Below is an example of how your STARTNET.BAT should look.

       1..Run LSL
       2..Run the QTCFG.COM file
       3..Run MADGECS.EXE file
       4..Make sure the  MADGECS.CFG file is in the same
          directory as the MADGECS.EXE file. Madge supplied the
          MADGECS.CFG file. This file is needed to ENABLE
          correct network configuration on the Ascentia P and
          Ascentia A+ systems.

       5..Run the Netware VLM drivers.

    NOTES

       N/A

    TAN 004337AO

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