Comment 49 for bug 26294

Ttoine,

Answer 5 years later (!), but yes. Only needed to install the fiirmware (and have done so again with 14.04.2). For my sound card, where I don't think that the firmware has changed, it would appear that it's fine to have the alsa drivers and firmware at different versions. I presume this would not be the case for newer sound cards.

Still appears that the problem surrounding this discussion remains: no alsa-firmware package. And the Medibuntu option is no longer available.