make modules for soundcard.

Hello, can anyone help to point me in the right direction to solve the following problem. I have a 7.3 installation, with a soundblaster live soundcard. It worked fine in KDE with the stock 2.4.10 kernel. I downloaded and installed the suse 2.4.16 kernel source rpm and updated to the 2.4.16 kernel, via make oldconfig, make dep, make bzImage, make modules, and make modules_install. When I boot to the new kernel my soundcard does not work. I can see that the directory for the soundcard modules is missing "/lib/modules/kernel_version/misc". What did I do wrong during make modules/make modules_install? Why did the /misc modules directory not get created? Thanks for any help, Mike