Texas Inst. 5-in-1 SD - problems getting udev node [SOLVED]

coplaniuk · Last edited by coplaniuk on Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:03 am; edited 1 time in total

I have an HP dv5000 series laptop with a Texas Instrument 5-in-1 card reader. I'm tying to get it working so that I can mound an SD card. Here's my lspci:

coplaniuk · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:56 pm Post subject:

Any ideas. Tinkered around a bit, but still can't seem to get it working. 'dmesg' seems to recognize that I've stuck something in the drive, but that's it. Doesn't map a device to /dev/. Can't figure it out.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I just want to try to figure something out.
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kr0z · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2007 Posts: 9

Please, confirm, that you have followed all step of manuals you mentioned above.

Because in my case the problem was in "Probe all LUNs on each SCSI device" option - it was disables and I had troubles.

coplaniuk · Posted: Tue Apr 03, 2007 2:25 am Post subject:

Didn't miss that step. Been tinkering some more and I havn't made it any further. Somewhere on the Gento WIKI, I found reference to a tifm_core, tifm_sd and tifm_7xx1 drivers. I can't find it again. So somewhere along the line, I tried those drivers, and they got me the furthest so far. I modprobed them all, and all I get when I insert the card is this:

coplaniuk · Posted: Wed Apr 04, 2007 2:27 am Post subject:

So I added this to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-mmc.rules:

avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

I've got the same problem with the needed stuff build into the kernel (2.6.20-r4). It once did work with 2.6.19-rX and an old udev, now with most recent versions, it doesn't work.

Is pmount needed? I never had it installed and it worked good without it before.

cheers,
ph

Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 1:32 pm Post subject:

I can also say, I am having a problem with my TexasInstruments SD reader, it worked before, but now I am not getting any /dev nodes when a card is inserted, running 2.6.20 and udev-108

No solutions yet, just mentioning that this isn't a single case issue.
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Insanity5902 · Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2007 6:09 pm Post subject:

coplaniuk · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 7:30 am Post subject:

Ok...the downloaded drivers seem to be doing a bit more. To get the drivers to do anything except hang the computer, I had to add an option to my boot line in grub: 'irqpoll' -- don't know what that does, but it's what the crash message indicated.

Somewhere along the lines, I added this to my udev rules, a file named '/etc/'udev/rules.d/10-mmc.rules':

Insanity5902 · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 1:12 pm Post subject:

1) what display in dmesg when you plug a card in.
2) Get rid of those udev rules, i don't think you need them
3) I don't know why ohci1394 are causing you not to be able to modprobe the tifm_core, as that is for firewire ...
4) make sure you don't have sdhci loaded
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coplaniuk · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

In response to Insanity5902's thoughts:

1) Here's the message I get when the card is plugged in (note, this time all modules are loaded: tifm_core, tifm_7xx1, ohci1394, mmc_core, mmc_block):

Insanity5902 · Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2007 9:54 pm Post subject:

just for grins and giggles, go put all the modules in your .conf and re-compile everything.

I have all the modules in the kernel, and then compile the .8 outside the kernel and just copy them over it , I just use the make all and make install

And everything works for me know , I didn't have to change anything.

Out of curiosity, what version of udev are you running.
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coplaniuk · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 1:32 am Post subject:

Only problem I'm having with that is I'm getting the following error when I try to modprobe:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 2:55 am Post subject:

what does uname -a return.
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coplaniuk · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 1:41 am Post subject:

Insanity5902 · Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 3:11 am Post subject:

two more things before you move on,

1) try running make clean first, when I moved to a different kernel, I had problems until I ran make clean,

2) when you run make all, watch the output (it shouldn't scroll) and make sure it is pointing to the correct kernel.

then run make install

rmmod the existing modules, and then modprobe them again.
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coplaniuk · Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:56 pm Post subject:

Okay...think the make clean fixed the kernel version error. But I'm still having trouble getting the SD card reader to map in udev.

Do you think it's a Kernel issue? I'm currently using 2.6.20-ck1 (ck sources). Do you think dropping back to the 2.6.19 or 2.6.18 might make a difference? Or do you think it's a udev issue?
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coplaniuk · Posted: Thu Apr 19, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject:

Just for giggles (giggles of insanity), I tried a few LiveCDs to try to pinpoint the problem. The Gentoo Live CD didn't work, nor did the Sabayon live CD. Well, I shouldn't say that -- they loaded the modules without error and gave the same dmesg results as above. But no mapping into udev. Then I tried SuSE, and it worked perfectly there, auto configured and all.

But I don't like SuSE.

So I know nothing about udev. In my readings here on the forum, I am guessing that everything might be working fine, except that I might not have the proper udev rules defined. As mentioned above, I tried these rules:

coplaniuk · Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2007 3:04 am Post subject:

*bing*

Solved. Check out the very helpful thread: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4018831.html#4018831

Long story short: You need to use the 0.8 drivers (not the ones in the kernel) and you need to upgrade udev to version 109 or newer.
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avx · Advocate Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 2152

Newest udev + kernel 2.6.21 also fixed it for me.

toster · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2005 Posts: 4

in my case I made strange thing with my FlashMedia Controller

(02:04.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller)