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AST RESEARCH, INC.         SOFTWARE BULLETIN #0135A               04-23-93

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                    PCMCIA ETHERNET DRIVERS RELEASE 1.03


Production Release 1.03        Available March, 1993

Part Number:  910719-032       3.50 inch, 1.44MB diskette 1 of 1

    CHANGES:

    - The CCU.EXE program has been split into separate programs: CCU.EXE and
      SSU.EXE.

    - INSTALL.EXE has been added to auto-configure the programs on the Power
      Exec.

    PROBLEMS RESOLVED:

    - An incompatibility with Banyan VINES has been resolved.  When loading
      the NDIS drivers during boot up, PCMNIC.DOS, which is supplied on the
      utility diskette ( p/n 910917-031) supplied with the network adapter,
      returned the error message "\DEV\PC-NIC$ Error: Hardware does not
      respond", which prevented a connection to the server.

PROGRAM AND FILE DESCRIPTIONS:

Listed below are the descriptions and location of files and programs included
on the PCMCIA Token Ring Utilities Diskette:

Root Directory

CCU.EXE
Card Configuration Utility

SSU.EXE
Socket Services Utilities

INSTALL.EXE
Installation Program for CCU.EXE and SSU.EXE.

PCMNIC   DOS
OEMSETUP DOS
OEMSETUP INF
Windows for Workgroups NDIS files.

NETWARE\DOSODI Sub directory

     PCMSM.COM
     Novell Netware (v2.2 and above) DOSODI  driver

MSLANMAN DOS/DRIVERS Sub directory
PROTOCOL INI
PCMNIC   NIF
PCMNIC   DOS
IBM Local Area Network Support Program NDIS files.

Production Release 1.00        Available December, 1992

Part Number:  910719-031       3.50 inch, 1.44MB diskette 1 of 1

This is the initial production release of the software.  These drivers are
for use with the PCMCIA Ethernet adapter (AST part number 500969-XXX).