help installing sound card

ok, first i must say im a newbie, i just built a new system and want to get in to linux, i successfully did an ftp install of suse 9.1 (the 64bit version) i need help installing my sound card, the drivers i think. linux reconizes my "c-media electronics cmi8738/c3dx pci audio device". i have the drivers on a cd but dont know what to do from here.  i already went through yast but when it tried to configure the sound card it came back with an error: the kernel module snd-cmipci for sound support could not be loaded.  thanks for the help!
p.s. keep is simple pleeeze im a newie!