[ale] Trouble with a sound card on Ubuntu 6.10.

[Jim]

I was never able to get sound or the printer working right on my wife's 
system with her old, tired system, so I gave her an ASUS, AMD box that 
I'd been running Debian on quite successfully.  I scrubbed a new disk 
and installed Ubuntu Edgy.  The sound doesn't work.  I went googling and 
found a suggested fix that included installing the via82cxxx_audio 
module.  I tried that and:

root at sue-desktop:~# find /lib/modules/ -name via82cxxx_audio.ko | xargs 
ls -l
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2006-12-05 17:47 
/lib/modules/2.6.17-10-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29062 2007-02-01 15:11 
/lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/kernel/sound/oss/via82cxxx_audio.ko
root at sue-desktop:~# modprobe via82cxxx_audio
FATAL: Module via82cxxx_audio not found.
root at sue-desktop:~# uname -r
2.6.17-11-generic

I'm very confused.  Lsmod doesn't mention it, so it's not already 
installed. It's not in the /etc/modprobe.d/arch/i386 file.

So why doesn't modprobe (or insmod) find the module?