Creative SB AWE64 - how to activate

[Chris A Czerwinski]

First a Big Thanks for the help when I swapped my
  Toshiba CDROM for a SONY CDRW 
where I appended my /boot/grub/grub.conf
  at the end of the kernel line I added ...    hdc=ide-scsi

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Now I want to activate my Sound Card (there was no need before)
so doing my research and discovery I have tried the following

My OS is Red Hat 9 with kernel-2.4.20-31.9
and current with YUM as of Sep 26, 2004

[root]# cat /proc/isapnp    { it displays the following }

Card 1 'CTL00c1:Creative SB AWE64 PnP' PnP version 1.0 Product version
1.0

  Logical device 0 'CTL0042:Audio'
    Device is active
    Active port 0x220,0x330,0x388
    Active IRQ 5 [0x2]
    Active DMA 1,5

  Logical device 1 'CTL7002:Game'
    Compatible device PNPb02f
    Device is not active

  Logical device 2 'CTL0022:WaveTable'
    Device is not active

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when I look thru  Red Hat MAIN MENU -> 
                             SYSTEM Tools -> 
                                HARDWARE BROWSER ->
 it displays the following:

SOUND Cards   ->  Creative SB AWE64:Audio
                  Creative SB AWE64:WaveTable
                  Device Information:
                             Manufacturer: Unknown
                             Driver:           SB
and under

Unknown Devices -> Creative SB AWE64 PnP:Game
                   Device Information:
                             Manufacturer: Unknown
                             Driver:           ns558

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[root]# rpm -q sndconfig
sndconfig-0.70-2

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I was able to find the following on my system

[root usr/sbin/sndconfig]#ls -al sndconfig
     sndconfig -> ../../sbin/sndconfig                       {a link}

[root usr/share/sndconfig]#ls -al
     sample2.au                                              {a file}
     sample.au                                               {a file}
     sample.midi                                             {a file}

[root sbin]# ls -al sndconfig
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       263776 Feb  7  2003 sndconfig

[root sbin]# sndconfig
bash: sndconfig: command not found

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So HOW can I activate my sound card???

Chris Cz (still a Newbie)