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Asante ISA ethernet card problems

How can I get my Asante EtherPaC 2000+ ISA ethernet card to work properly.  Every time I get the ethernet card to work (using modconf), I lose my sound (Soundblaster awe 64 ISA).  If I try to restore the sound (using sound_setup or modconf) I lose my ethernet card.

After losing my ethernet card I typed dmesg and this is the error I receive:

Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM512k)>
ne.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker (becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov)
NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x240: 00 00 94 79 a3 a7
eth0: NE2000 found at 0x240, using IRQ 10.
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.1.2
  kernel build: 2.2.12 unknown
  options:  [pci] [cardbus]
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
unloading PCMCIA Card Services
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=669.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1500.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=1000.
eth0: Tx timed out, lost interrupt? TSR=0x3, ISR=0x3, t=2500.


I am using Corel's distribution of Linux.  Please let me know if you need more information.

Thanks for your help
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If the atlantic program above doesn't work try out one of the other programs here (it depends on which chip the adapter uses):

http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/diag/#isa-diags

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When I tried to compile the atlantic program, I recieved alot of undefined referece messages.  Here are some of the lines from that compile.

CorelLinux:/install# gcc -Wall -O6 -o atlantic atlantic.c
gcc: unrecognized option '-06'
/tmp/ccc00471: In function 'main':
/tmp/ccc00471(.text+0x56f): undefined reference to '__inbc'

If you can't tell, I am new to the linux world.

Thanks again for all your help.
It appears that you don't have the proper development libraries and header files needed to compile atlantic. Getting the compiler to work is another question.

I put the compiled atlantic binary, plus two other programs mentioned at the site.  ne2k-diag are for clones that don't work with atlantic.

http://the.netpedia.net/ethernet/altantic
http://the.netpedia.net/ethernet/ne2k-diag
http://the.netpedia.net/ethernet/ne2k
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Your a genius freesource.

The atlantic program worked.

Thanks again for all of you help,

hn3etta
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freesource was right on the money with his answer.  After running the atlantic program, both my sound card and ethernet card work.