[lug] Sound driver

[Elyse Grasso]

Here's a weird one.  

When I boot my laptop at work, the sound system always comes up. KDE 
plays its little tune when I log in, sounds on websites work, etc. 

When I boot it at home, the sound system never comes up. No tune, no 
sounds on websites. Soundcard detection acts like it works, but no 
sounds come out if I click the test button.

I make no changes to the setup: I just shutdown the laptop at work and 
plug it in at home and start it up. 

There are ethernet connections at both places. The modem card stays in 
the laptop at work and is found at boot time(so it doesn't get lost) and 
the failure at home happens regardless of whether the modem cable is 
plugged into the modem card.

How does the laptop know that it is at home instead of at work and why 
should that affect the sound drivers?

KRUD/RedHat 8.0
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Elyse Grasso