Folks,
Months ago, I tried to get my notebook's internal modem working, by installing alsa-driver-linuxant-1.0.23.1-1.noarch.rpm and hsfmodem-7.80.02.06x86_64full-1.x86_64.rpm, both from
Linuxant. This did not work, but my system was stable and the sound device (Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)) worked fine.
In the last few days, I upgraded to the latest kernel 2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64. Boot failed due to an inability to build the alsa-driver-linuxant against the kernel source (I have the kernel source in /usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64/). The message in boot.log was:
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ERROR: Build failed. Please review the build log at /var/run/alsa-driver.1367.log.
/var/run/alsa-driver.1367.log contains the error:
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make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64'
Makefile:538: /usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64/arch//Makefile: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64/arch//Makefile'. Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.35.12-88.fc14.x86_64'
make: *** [compile] Error 2
Not wanting to get into hacking makefiles just to boot my system cleanly, I decided to (at long last) uninstall alsa-driver-linuxant and hsfmodem, which I did using yum erase blah.
Now, my system boots cleanly, but I have no sound.
lsmod reports no loaded sound modules. lspci reports the correct hardware:
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[root@cardraeh ~]# lsmod | grep snd
[root@cardraeh ~]# lspci | grep -i audio
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
[root@cardraeh ~]# aplay -l
aplay: device_list:235: no soundcards found...
modprobe -l reports the following sound modules:
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kernel/sound/soundcore.ko
kernel/sound/usb/snd-usb-audio.ko
kernel/sound/usb/snd-usbmidi-lib.ko
kernel/sound/usb/misc/snd-ua101.ko
kernel/sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-usx2y.ko
kernel/sound/usb/usx2y/snd-usb-us122l.ko
kernel/sound/usb/caiaq/snd-usb-caiaq.ko
kernel/sound/pcmcia/vx/snd-vxpocket.ko
kernel/sound/pcmcia/pdaudiocf/snd-pdaudiocf.ko
kernel/sound/ac97_bus.ko
So, the upshot is I seem to be missing the modules to make my soundcard work. I do not know what modules I need, but assume they are lurking somewhere waiting for me to modprobe them. I am not a kernel guru by any means, but I am a long-time Linux user and should be able to follow clear instructions. (I am a retired programmer, so don't use too many long words ... "8-]).
If you can tell me how to get my soundcard working, I will be grateful. If you can tell me how to get the internal modem working as well, so I can fax etc, I will be ecstatic. I am using a Lenovo T61, if that makes any difference.
Thanks for reading this far,
Doug