Still No Sound: But Internet is good!

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com
Thu Jun 3 22:55:09 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 15:33, Timothy Wagner wrote:
> 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 (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). 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

It may need more than that Here's mine
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-slot-0 snd-intel8x0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss



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