TP 760ED: PCMCIA NE2000 problem

[Friedemann Baitinger <baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de>]

i have a TP 760ED and a NE2000 compatible PCMCIA ethernet card.
the card works nicely under linux but i can't get it working on
win95.

the user's manual for the card says the following:

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Please do the following to implement your PCMCIA Ethernet Adpater under
Windows 95.

  1) Insert the PCMCIA Ethernet Adapter into the Type II socket on the
     system following the instructions in the manual shipped with the
     card.^M

  2) When the "New Hardware Found" panel appears during Windows 95 start-
     up, choose "Select from a list of alternate drivers" and then OK.

  3) When "Select Hardware Type" panel is displayed, select "Network
     Adapters" and then OK.

  4) When "Select Device" panel appears, choose "Novell/Anthem" to be the
     manufacturer and "NE2000 Compatible" to be the model, and then select
     OK.  The system will copy the required system files.
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as soon as the drivers are installed, the system hangs completely. i
have to power off/on the system to recover. in many cases the hang also
causes the FAT to be corrupted. in one instance CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
were gone, in another instance a whole series of TCP/IP related .vxd files
were corrupted.

if i boot without the card plugged, the system comes up, however, the
device manager doesn't show the newly configured card either. as a
consequence, i cannot even check and find out what resources have been
assigned to the card. if i plug the card while win95 is up and running,
it immediately hangs as described above: catch-22 time.

i'd easily blame the card, after all it is a $100 card, however, as
i mentioned above it workes just fine with linux on the very same machine
on which it fails with win95.

any ideas?

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Friedemann Baitinger           baiti@herrenberg.netsurf.de