Well, I did modprobe 'cmpci', but couldn't with 'snd', instead i was able with 'sound'...
modprobe: Can't locate module snd
now lsmod gives me:
Module Size Used by
ppp 20316 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4384 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
cmpci 22624 0
lockd 42420 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sunrpc 57816 0 (autoclean) [lockd]
sound 56384 0 (unused)
soundlow 384 0 [sound]
soundcore 2452 7 [cmpci sound]
ide-floppy 8536 0
printer 4536 0 (unused)
usbcore 43920 0 [printer]
sis900 10156 1
af_packet 6152 3
unix 11352 129 (autoclean)
Still no sound
thanks anyway
*edit*
just in case, this is a piece of 'dmesg' :
cmpci: version v2.41-nomodem time 11:52:59 Apr 20 2002
cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0xda00 irq 9
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide0(3,64)
cmpci: dma timed out??
cmpci: dma timed out??