changing both ~/.asoundrc and /etc/asound.conf to your suggestion and force-reloading alsa worked flawlessly!

I'm trying to set up my RPi with on-board sound out and a USB mic in, but everything I've found only deals with both audio i/o on the same (external) sound card. What's happening in my situation is that regardless of the default sound card I set, either one of aplay or arecord will fail with an erro...

Okay so I've been trying to set up a static ip on my rpi as well, and this post is the first post that's telling me that the network and broadcast depend on the netmask.... and that's a problem because my netmask is 255.255.252.0. my gateway (router ip) is 10.2.12.1

Can someone help?