Try reading the following:
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.html
It sounds like the ethernet card is hogging the resources. I have an AWE32
PnP ISA but I don't have a NIC. I simply ran sndconfig. I received a
message that I had to setup the soundcard resources manually. I clicked OK,
left the Mandrake defaults alone, clicked OK again, and had sound on my
system.
HTH,
Matt
>From: Etien VanDenBroecke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Seem to have some problems
>Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 11:49:51 +0000
>
>I have a AWE32 PnP ISA card that just simply will not work with my nic..
>have compiled a new kernel to support both of them but as soon as I put my
>Sound card in the box and boot up again, neither the nic or the sound card
>work.... tried to setup the sound card in setup, but still the damn thing
>will not work, and having no sound on my system is like having no ears!
>
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