no snd with Intel ICH5

["J. Price" <pairodocs@sbcglobal.net>]

Installed etch,
2.6.18-5-686

ran alsaconf; sees the controller. Unmuted in alsamixer. Verified user 
is in audio group.

etc/modules is empty

Perhaps I mistakenly did something during installation??

Ran modprobe -l and it showed the modules Intel8x0.   Ran modprobe -v 
and copy/pasted the full pathname for the module,  and modprobe says it 
cannot find the module!

Knoppix plays sounds fine.

How do I fix the debian system?  or do I dump it and change 
distributions? I don't have much invested in it so a reinstall is easily 
done.

Thanks,

J