<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Ladies and Gentlemen! In the past I've had some issues with the internet. I'm no longer having that problem! I had bought a D-Link DWL-520. I later learned that I bought the "special" card with the flashable firmware. I wasn't too sure why they still continued to call this firmware seeing that it was lost every time the card loses power. So, due to extreme frustration and lack of a decent driver I brought it back and bought a Belkin 802.11g wi-fi PCI card (Model #:F5D7000). This is truly a wonderful card! The setup was easier than I could have ever hoped! After some initial googling I was pointed to LinuxAnt.com which I found to be a really neat website with great software. They offer a NDIS driver wrapper. It allows the user to utilize the windows driver that the card was shipped with on their Linux OS. I then realized that it was $20 to buy the license forever to use it so I ditched that and found a great alternate solution. I found the program ndiswrapper off of sourceforge (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/">http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/</a>). This is the open source alternative to LinuxAnt's software. It worked great. It was a simple install that included a clear and simple README for installing. Now, my internet is finally up and running great. I highly recommend ndis wrapper to be used with wi-fi pci cards. It has support for many different chipsets. I still have this darn sound issue. When I installed Fedora Core 2, it had brought me through the setup screens right before I logged into KDE. These were the setup screens for things like sound, time, etc. In the soundcard configuration screen, I played the sound and everything went great. I finished up the setup and logged into KDE. I tried playing a CD and found there was no sound. Then, I played the test sound using the soundcard config program and also got nothing. I checked my volume controls, and I had unmuted everything and cranked all volume levels up. My modprobe.conf file is as follows: alias eth0 3c59x alias snd-card-0 snd-emu10k1 alias usb-controller uhci-hcd alias wlan0 ndiswrapper I've also run lsmod, and it seems all of the correct modules are loaded. My lsmod is as follows: Module Size Used by snd_pcm_oss 47144 0 snd_mixer_oss 17024 1 snd_pcm_oss snd_emu10k1 78344 1 snd_rawmidi 21028 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_pcm 74120 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1 snd_timer 20740 1 snd_pcm snd_seq_device 8072 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi snd_ac97_codec 59396 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_page_alloc 10504 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm snd_util_mem 4224 1 snd_emu10k1 snd_hwdep 8964 1 snd_emu10k1 snd 4516 12 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,snd_util_mem,snd_hwdep soundcore 6112 1 snd parport_pc 19392 1 lp 8236 0 parport 29640 2 parport_pc,lp autofs4 10624 0 sunrpc 101064 1 3c59x 30376 0 ndiswrapper 61956 0 sg 27552 0 scsi_mod 91344 1 sg microcode 4768 0 dm_mod 33184 0 uhci_hcd 23708 0 button 4504 0 battery 6924 0 asus_acpi 8472 0 ac 3340 0 ipv6 184288 8 ext3 102376 2 jbd 40216 1 ext3 I have also installed the latest alsa driver (ver. 1.0.5a). I think thats the latest driver. I have tried everything I can think of and google is no longer one with the force. My soundcard is a Sound Blaster Audigy Gamer. Has anyone had this problem similar to mine? Can anyone help me out? I'd love to listen to CDs again! Thanks guys! </body> </html>