In article <20040103220948.GA1204@kenny>,
	Sascha Wilde <wilde@sha-bang.de> writes:
> 3. 3Com Etherlink III (3c509):  This card works perfect, so the story
>    could end here, but: when it is installed my soundcard (PCI Trident
>    4DWave) stops working (all is does ist some cracing noise).

1.) Disable ISA PnP for this card. The card is known to cause problems with
    various operating system if used in ISA PnP mode. You'll to boot MS-DOS
    and use the 3Com setup utility for this.

2.) Make sure that whatever IRQ the 3c509 uses is marked as not available
    for PCI in the BIOS.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://scheler.de/~matthias/