David G. Miller writes:
Fernando Apesteguía wrote:Hello people! I'm using FC 6 with 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 kernel. I'm trying to use my card reader. First of all, some information:<-------------------[ SNIP ]------------------------>Is this a built in SD card reader on a laptop or some kind of external reader with say a USB interface? I very recently researched getting the SD card reader on my laptop to read SD cards under Linux (of any flavor) and found out that the interface specification for SD is "encumbered" (patents, copyright) in such a way that it is doubtful that an open source Linux driver can be legally provided. Things may have changed or I could have missed something but that's what I found. A USB device should hide such details from Linux and just present a mass storage interface.But when I insert the card, nothing happens (accordint to dmesg). I read once that maybe some setpci stuff is needed but I don't know exactly what to do... man setpci is not very helpful. Any ideas? Thanks in advance
My laptop has what appears to be a built-in memory card reader. I don't have any memory cards to read, but it looks to be a CompactFlash reader.
On the Gnome desktop, opening "Computer" shows me an icon for my CD-ROM drive, a "Network" icon, a "Filesystem" icon, and an icon labeled "Memory Stick Drive". Sifting through my dmesg, I see this:
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Storage-MSC 320A PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdaSince, as I said, I don't have memory cards, so I never used this. But, it does look to me like there are some memory card reader types that should work under Linux, just fine.
This is a no-name brand four-year old laptop from LA Computers.
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