I've been using FC2, but my sound card doesn't work

I'm new with linux systems..

but there says that needs to recompile kernel

how can i do it with a kernel 2.6.5 i386 ?

by the way,. my sound card chipset is an ESS 1869F, with a compaq deskpro Smal Form Factor. but i have not found a driver

Hi
what the error message says probably means that your sound driver is included in kernel 2.6;
So you must easily recompile your kernel and active support for your sound chip in the configuration section

well, my soundcard only works with the sndconfig , but fedora core 2 only has alsa.

sndconfig is a utility for configuring the soundcard.
alsa is a driver

as root, you might need to try alsaconf to configure the card and alsamixer to adjust the volumes.

no, because the SO. doesn't recognize mi soundcard.

when I run lspci my sound card isn't in the list

also I have actived es18xx module in the compilation but it still without work.

I was searching for configure sndconfig in fedora core 2 but there is an error.

I hope you understand my vocabulary, because I'm Mexican

I'm thinking for a new soundcard, but i want to experiment whit this problem