compile kernel and modules:

[Michael Havens]

Craig, I want to tell you that I really appreciate the advise you're giving to 
me. I will get a new sound card and USB card. There are two available PCI 
ports in my system and if I needed to I could remove the modem as it is not 
in use. Thanks for talking sense to me.

On Sunday 05 November 2006 3:48 pm, Craig White wrote:
> Compiling a kernel was about WHY the ISA sound card didn't
> work...because the 2.6 kernels don't generally enable the ISA
> extensions.
>
> You're likely to break more things in a custom compiled kernel than you
> will fix. I would expect that you are going to have to repeat the
> process several times until you get it down. It will be painful. It will
> suck a lot of time. It all depends upon how you value your time though
> whether your are being hard headed or not is not likely determined on
> this issue alone.