ALSA, AWE32, kernel 2.6 issues?

[Mark Tilford]

I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.2 to 2.6; various other problems
eventually required a complete OS reinstall.  I can't get my sound
card (Creative SB AWE 32) to work with ALSA; it worked fine under OSS.
Is there anything special about Debian that may require me to
configure things differently from the ALSA documentation?