kernel modules sound and modem solved

[Husse]

I installed restricted drivers from synaptic.

You installed the wrong restricted - obviously you installed the 386 and not the generic ones
You should select the generic if your kernel is generic, 386 if your kernel is 386 and so on
You should also use the same version number - for standard Elyssa 2.6.24-16
and better use the restricted drivers tool - it's Hardware Drivers in Control Center > Hardware

[Husse]

To your question about the difference between generic and 386 - it's about which processors the kernel supports The 386 should be called x86 because that's what it is

[Husse]

I think it should be
sudo echo > whatever
only one >
and sometimes the sudo is not doing quite what you think
It should be

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echo martian_dev | sudo tee -a /etc/modules 

I have to figure out an answer to your basic question, but I don't use a modem.....