Upgrade Advise Please

List: My Dell DIM4550 HW is pretty much unknown to my RH7.2 SW.

>From the drivers seat there is no sound from the PCI SB Live (WDM). The AGP
Card is running in PCI mode according to /var/message. 

I'm not in a situation where hours of upgrade downloads are practical.

I don't see that RH is making the upgrades available on CDs to buy.

On this list I have heard hints that distros other than RH provide upgrade
methods that don't require the massive downloads.

So I'm thinking that I need to go shopping for a newer Linux OS more
compatible with my HW and my upgrade limitations.

Any suggestions?

Frank K

lspci output follows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2560 (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 2561 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24c2 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24c4 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24c7 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24cd (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801BAM PCI (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24cb (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 24c3 (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 5446
02:01.0 Serial controller: US Robotics/3Com 56K FaxModem Model 5610 (rev 01)
02:02.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 0006
02:02.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs: Unknown device 7004
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 1039 (rev 81)