The sound now works, but I did have to reboot the computer (there might have been some other way to do it, but modprobe was not enough) as well as use the second firmware location (without the /usr/local/ prefix in the directions). ____________________________________________________________ Wall Street Daily Peter Schiff: China Just Armed its Financial Missile http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3131/56f6b04e88a2e304e1e7fst03vuc