ThinkPad modem and sound

[Shawn <fjorn@mninter.net>]

  I'm relatively new to Linux, about 6 months or so with limited time to
work on it in depth.  I'm running SuSE 6.4 on an IBM ThinkPad i1720
(similar to a 390E).  It works great, and haven't had really any
troubles.  The biggest issues I'm facing right now is no sound, and no
modem capabilities from the built in 56k modem.  I do get dial
capabilities through an older 33.6 pcmcia card.  But would like to
utilize the built in one for higher speed.  Anyone know if there's been
a solution to this yet?  I did a search a couple of weeks ago, but
didn't come up with anything good at the time.
  Is there a good place to search for ThinkPad drivers out there?  IBM
doesn't list any Linux drivers that I've seen yet, and I believe they
just released the info for creating drivers for Linux.


Thanks,

Shawn