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Blutch
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 Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 4:34 pm Post subject: SD Card Reader on my Laptop |
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Hello everybody!
I'm having some trouble to make my SD card working on my laptop (AOpen 1557GLS).
The 2 following lines, from my lspci output, identify my SD Card Reader: | Code: | 02:09.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac)
02:09.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ac) |
When I plug in a SD card, I can see the following lines in /var/log/messages: | Code: | Jul 27 18:20:17 localhost kernel: pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Jul 27 18:20:17 localhost kernel: pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0 |
And when my SD card is plugged in, here is the empty output of cat /proc/scsi/scsi:
And I don't have anything like /dev/sd*
Therefore, I don't have anything to mount...
I'm using a 1Gb SD Card, which works perfectly in my digital camera and under Windows (plugged into the same card reader).
By the way, I'm using a pcmcia ethernet controller which works like a charm.
I enabled SCSI and PCMCIA/Cardbus support in the kernel (2.6.17-r4): | Code: | [*]
Device Drivers --->
SCSI device support --->
[*] legacy /proc/scsi/ support
<*> SCSI disk support
<*> SCSI OnStream SC-x0 tape support
<*> SCSI CDROM support
<*> SCSI generic support
Bus options (PCI, PCMCIA, EISA, MCA, ISA) --->
PCCARD (PCMCIA/CardBus) support --->
<*> PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support
<*> 16-bit PCMCIA support
[*] Load CIS updates from userspace (EXPERIMENTAL)
[*] PCMCIA control ioctl (obsolete)
<*> CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support
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Can someone help ? What did I forget to do ? What error am I making ?
Thanks a lot,
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chrismortimore
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:29 pm Post subject: |
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Have you had a look in "MMC/SD Card support" in "Device Drivers"?
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asiobob
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| Posted: Tue Aug 01, 2006 8:58 pm Post subject: |
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| You need a 2.6.17 or greater kernel |
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Blutch
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| chrismortimore wrote: | | Have you had a look in "MMC/SD Card support" in "Device Drivers"? |
Yes it is enabled: | Code: |
<*> MMC support
[ ] MMC debugging
<*> MMC block device driver
<*> Secure Digital Host Controller Interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)
< > Winbond W83L51xD SD/MMC Card Interface support
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| ASIO_BOB wrote: | | You need a 2.6.17 or greater kernel |
I wrote I'm using a 2.6.17-r4 kernel |
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chrismortimore
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| Posted: Wed Aug 02, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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Take a look at sys-apps/pcmciautils, I'm not overly sure myself what they do, but I have them installed and my pcmcia stuff works fine...
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Blutch
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:01 am Post subject: |
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| chrismortimore wrote: | | Take a look at sys-apps/pcmciautils, I'm not overly sure myself what they do, but I have them installed and my pcmcia stuff works fine... |
That sounds interesting. I saw it uses the "udev" USE variable, maybe it'll help create the correct /dev/xxx. Do you know if I have anything to configure, or do I just have to let it act in the background for me ?
I'll give it a try tonight when i'll be back home. |
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Lloeki
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 1:44 pm Post subject: |
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Mine is:
| Code: | $ lspci |grep Ricoh
02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b3)
02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 08)
02:01.2 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)
02:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 08)
02:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 03)
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I did a bit of research some time ago (3~6 months) and ended up in a dead end: pcmcia-based laptop Ricoh card readers are not documented, and Ricoh refuses to give any information. So the only way to write a driver is reverse engineer it, which has not been done TTBOMK.
It might have changed though.
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Blutch
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| Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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| Lloeki wrote: | I did a bit of research some time ago (3~6 months) and ended up in a dead end: pcmcia-based laptop Ricoh card readers are not documented, and Ricoh refuses to give any information. So the only way to write a driver is reverse engineer it, which has not been done TTBOMK.
It might have changed though. |
Do you mean that if the solution hasn't changed, there is NO solution to make a Ricoh adapter work under linux ???
Doesn't a wrapper exist, that can use a windows driver (like ndis wrapper for wireless controllers) ? |
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Blutch
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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Did anyone else have any experience with a Ricoh card reader ?
I'm still open to any idea that could help make it work. |
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Whoopie
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| Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:10 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
the "Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter" is supported by sdhci kernel module. It's already included in vanilla kernel, but you should use a 2.6.18-rc? kernel because the driver was improved a lot.
Best regards,
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Blutch
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks a lot for your answer.
The SDHCI is already compiled in my kernel (2.6.17-r4):
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<*> Secure Digital Host Controller Interface support (EXPERIMENTAL)
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So, in principle, it should work, shouldn't it ?
Anyway, I'll try to use it with the newer rc kernel, maybe it'll work. |
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kilianh
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| Posted: Thu Aug 10, 2006 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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I have the exact same symptoms, I gave up trying to use my sd card reader a long time ago when I saw the new sd interface driver in the 2.6.17 kernel (my laptop is 2,5 years old).
It's just that sdhci doesn't seem to do anything at all (except loading) so I guess we will have to wait for 2.6.18  Once this works though my laptop will be 100% supported (Samsung P30) |
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blorby
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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i've got an asus laptop with a Ricoh R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter, a R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter and a 2.6.17-r4 kernel
it seems that MMC + SDHCI works for SD cards and not for MS type (dont know exactly why...)
but, the mount point is not a /dev/scsi/something but more something like /dev/mmcblk0p1 |
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Lloeki
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 2:21 pm Post subject: |
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just upgraded.
$ uname -r
2.6.17-suspend2-r4
mine (sd/mmc) works (r/w tested) with sdhci.
ms doesn't (tested), as it's obviously not sdhci-compliant.
remember that there's one slot but those are really different devices packed in one, so another driver is needed for ms/cf/xd/whatever.
you can see it in multiple places:
- windows device manager (a must-have to get info on unsupported/undetected hardware under linux)
- windows explorer (in that case, multiple drive letters => multiple devices)
- lspci
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| Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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true
it seems the right driver for the MS doesnt even exist |
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RushPL
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| Posted: Wed Nov 22, 2006 7:29 pm Post subject: |
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Hey, I don't want to spawn a new topic so I'll just post here ...
I owe an ASUS laptop with a a "03:01.2 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 17)".
I've followed the wiki on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_SD_and_MMC_card_readers
I use a kernel 2.6.18-suspend2 - with every required option enabled.
My loaded(relevant) modules are:
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rushpod rush # lsmod
Module Size Used by
msdos 6912 0
vfat 9216 0
fat 38940 2 msdos,vfat
sdhci 13708 0
mmc_block 5512 0
mmc_core 17408 2 sdhci,mmc_block
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After modprobing the 'sdhci' module I get the following messages in 'dmesg':
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sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver, 0.12
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:03:01.2 [1180:0822] (rev 17)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:03:01.2[C] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xfe8ff400 irq 20 DMA
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And guess what ? I get NO DEVICE /dev/mmcblk0p1 whatsoever.
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rushpod ~ # ls /dev/mmc*
ls: cannot access /dev/mmc*: No such file or directory
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Since it appears to be all perfectly set I humbly request for your support.
Regards,
Rush |
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