Debian -> sound modules

[Kurt Sys]

Hello,

I'm rather a newbie to Linux (and to this list) and I've been trying already some different distro's. In my opinion, Debian as (by far) the best one (I've tried RedHet, Slackware, which I didn't like and SuSe, which I think is also OK), but there are a few things I can't get right. I have both a desktop and a laptop... and after a few months, I would like to get everything working.

1. I just can't get sound working. I installed Woody, but it coming with a kernel which doesn't support sound (as far as I understand all well), so I recompiled the kernel with different sound modules (I compile the 'debian way' and when I 'make menuconfig', I choose some different 'sound modules'). On my desktop, I have a very standard soundblaster (PCI 128, and I know I/O, IRQ, DMA, etc), on my (Dell Inspiron 2650) laptop, it's rather new and I now it's a 'integrated intell sound controller'. What's the problem?
I tried to run sndconfig, but it complains about my kernel. It asks for a kernel at least 2.2... and I use 2.2.20 on my desktop and 2.4.16 on my laptop. I don't get it. I think it searches for a module, sb or snd. When I try to 'insmod' the 'soundblaster' (100% compatible things, actually the ones I need!?) modules, it failes, for some reason or another. I don't know why... So I tried alsa and installed, alsa-headers, alsa-modules (but Debian tells me I have to use alsa-base, so that's what I do), alsa-utils and alsaconf. If I run alsaconf, I can choose some cards and give the right 'parameters', but alsa then it fails again, because 'can't locate module snd'.
It's more or less the same story for my laptop... although I have actually no idea which 'modules' I have to choose for the soundcard which is 'integrated'.

2. I want to get to a network with a Windows NT server. I know I have to use samba, but again, some trouble. I didn't manage to mount the filesystem, so I looked for some tools and found one: xsmbrowser. With this thing, I'm able to connect so the server and read all the files etc, but I can't mount the filesystem, even not as root. I really have to be able to mount the filesystem, because I can't print if it's not mounted (I guess). So, it is surely possible to connect to the server and read the stuff, but I really want to know how I have to mount the whole filesystem. I have a password for my own directory (although if I use xsmbrowser, I can read everyones documents with that passwd, but that has something to do with some 'server things', I guess) and I have the password of the administrators (although I'm not really an administrator...).

Any help? Any suggestions? Thanks,

Kurt Sys.

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