When I boot KDE it says there was an error starting the sound server...so it's not just that they're muted. As for the modules, I don't know how one would check that. (like i said, me = idiot). When it boots, I notice it says that it's sharing IRQ for two PCI devices and lspci showed my NIC and sound card as those two devices. Also in the boot message I saw something about NE2k-PCI, and it said [OK].