kernel 2.1.128 & sound

[Paul McDermott <paul@experimental.braille.uwo.ca>]

Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running.  I am loading
sound as a module.  When I try to cat something to the device I get this
error message:

[paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio
bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device

tail of /var/log/kern.log shows:
Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by
Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
Nov 14 23:09:48 data kernel: sb: dsp reset failed.


lsmod shows:
Module                  Size  Used by
uart401                 5696   0
sound                  58064   0  (autoclean) [uart401]
soundcore               2120   3  (autoclean) [sound]
 
I know that sb.o is not loaded.  If I try to load it it say the the device
or resource is busy.

I took a look at the modules.def file and saw this:
/lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sb.o: /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/soundcore.o
/lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/uart401.o /lib/modules/2.1.128/misc/sound.o

Can somone tell me what is going on.  I would really appriciate any
insight in to this particular problem.
Paul