Enabling External Sound Card?

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I have just completed my first Linux installation. I installed OPEN SUSE 11 with the Gnome 2.22 desktop on my Intel Quad Core 64-bit system. It is a dual boot system with Vista Ultimate 64-bit OS and OPEN SUSE 11.

My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4. It an excellent board an has worked flawlessly with my Vista 64-bit OS.

My challenge, especially since I am new to Linux, is to get the Linux OS to recognize the following peripherals:

  1. an Iogear Dual View USB KVM Switch (which switches my usb wireless access point [Linksys WUSB54G])

  2. my external usb sound card (Edirol UA-700) This device is recognized when dmesg | less is invoked, but no sound through my studio monitors.

How can I get my OpenSUSE system to see these peripherals?

Thanks for suggested solutions and/or references to documentation and/or tutorial posts, etc.

Jason

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I don’t use Gnome, but it should work the same:)

  1. Go to Yast > Network Devices > Network Settings
    is it detected? if so, click on it and add your wireless extensions in every blank & every tab to match you network starting with the IP, router, etc.
    If not, try to have it add one.

  2. Look in Yast > Hardware > Sound & see if it is detected
    if so, edit & test, turn up all the volumes to 70% test > save
    if not, try to add it.
    open a mixer and make sure it’s not muted ( alsa’s default is to come up muted.

Search the forum for “alsaconf”

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I deliberately did not reply to your post because I don’t think I can help. The reason is it involved a level of complexity beyond my experience. I confess I will be most interested to learn if snakedriver’s recommendation works.

When I saw your post, the mention of a USB KVM in the circuit rather scared me off. PLUS, I could not find out much about the UA-700, other than this URL on the UA-4FX, where mention the UA-700 in the context of a kernel patch:
Edirol UA-4FX - ALSA wiki
scroll down that URL where the author states:
*Looking at /usr/src/linux-2.6.24/sound/usb/usbaudio.c and usbquirks.h I made the following patch, tested on linux-2.6.24 and linux-2.6.25: *

… I have no confidence that patch found its way in the openSUSE 2.6.25 kernel, but maybe it did.