When I run sndconfig, it probes for my sound card and detects my modem as a sound card before it detects my real sound card(Ensoniq PCI) That really messes up my modem in Linux and keeps me from having sound. I know of no way of disabling the sound prober in sndconfig.
What does sndconfig think your modem is? You could try running it with '--noautoconfig'. Does that help?
Does --noautoconfig work for you?
closed, lack of input.