Melco EDS with old Melco ISA Starlan Card

We have a EMC-6 with EDS Dos software - Question - since the ISA cards are not available, we tried a regular Starlan card to connect the computer to the EMC-6. Can this work? I was able to install the card with it appearing to be working with the correct settings - but the EDS does not load - is there a way to do this or do we have to keep searching for the Melco card? BG