Creative 34mm Expresscard X-Fi Notebook with Alsa

Greetings! I am struggling with trying to get the Creative X-Fi Notebook expresscard (the smalled 34mm black one) to work with ALSA. I have read a few messages and forum posts about this and people do have it working so I know that it is possible. It seems that it has to be used with the usb-audio driver since it is registering as a USB device. Unfortuantely whenever I load the snd-usb-audio module, dmesg reports:

snd-usb-audio: probe of 5-2:1.0 failed with error -5

It is being recognized however, as dmesg shows:

usb 5-2: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 usb 5-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Creative Technology Ltd SB X-Fi Notebook as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.3/input/input2 generic-usb 0003:041E:30D2.0003: input: USB HID v1.11 Device [Creative Technology Ltd SB X-Fi Notebook] on usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input3 input: Creative Technology Ltd SB X-Fi Notebook as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb5/5-2/5-2:1.4/input/input3 generic-usb 0003:041E:30D2.0004: input: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Creative Technology Ltd SB X-Fi Notebook] on usb-0000:00:13.0-2/input4

Any input as to how someone got this to work would be great. I’ve tried it with both a 2.6.32 and 2.6.35 kernels and the newest alsa (1.0.23). Also if there is any other information anyone needs just let me know. Thanks in advance!

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