Can't get built-in SD card working

[Guest drfelip]

Hi! Just joined the forum, I need some help...

 

I just installed Mandriva Limited Edition 2005 on my LG LS70 express laptop. Everything works fine, even WiFi, but can't get the card reader to work.

 

I've found a guy (Andreas Nuesslein) that managed to set up it, but under Gentoo. It looks like he recompiles the kernel, but I'm afraid of doing it, I never succeeded in the past. I'm a linux newbie, so I chose Mandriva for its ease of use (and catalan language support, too).

 

What's your advice? I paste here Andreas' solution here:

 

4.7. 4-in-1-CardReader:: Texas Instruments PCI7420

 

Okay all I know is that the CardReader works (I only tested it with a MMC-Card and a SD-Card, but i figured if two card-format work the other formats should work too).

 

Modified:

I now managed how to set up the right configuration so your card-reader will work:

make menuconfig

Bus options --->

PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support --->

[*] 16-Bit PCMCIA support (you will need that 'cause pcmcia-cs won't compile w/o it.)

[*] 32-Bit CardBus support

[*/M] CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support

 

And don't forget to merge "pcmcia-cs"

[ianw1974]

I've checked the kernel source, and it's all compiled in with Mandriva 2006. I'm sure it's the same with LE2005 also.

 

You might just need to do:

 

modprobe yenta_socket

 

and then run an lsmod to see if the module has loaded. Then you should have more luck with it. I'd suggest, adding this to /etc/modprobe.preload but just add "yenta_socket" without the quotes, no need to put modprobe before it.

[Guest drfelip]

Looks easy. I'll try it ASAP and tell you the results. Thanks!

[ianw1974]

The equivalent to emerge pcmcia-cs in Mandriva is:

 

urpmi pcmcia-cs

 

taken from my package listing as below (from Mandriva 2006, but be similar for LE2005):

 

urpmf --name pcmcia
pcmcia-cs:pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-8mdk.i586.rpm
pcmcia-cs:pcmcia-cs-3.2.8-8mdk.i586.rpm
pcmcia-cs-x11:pcmcia-cs-x11-3.2.8-8mdk.i586.rpm
pcmciautils:pcmciautils-007-4mdk.i586.rpm

[pmpatrick]

I really don't care about it that much as I use usb flash drives and I have a separate card reader(usb) which works fine but I have a similar Texas Instruments 4-1 card reader on my new laptop that doesn't work in mdv 2006. It's designated as "Texas Instruments PCIxx21 FlashMedia Controller" in mcc>Hardware.

 

pcmcia-css is installed and yenta_socket is loaded

 

I looked at the pcmciautils package description which is not installed. It indicates that the package is a bunch of scripts that will make pcmcia behave the same as any other hotplugable bus(usb, firewire) but that it requires kernel 2.6.13rc-1 or better. That kernel is not standard in mdv2006. I attempted to install the package anyway to see what would happen but it indicated that the package conflicted with pcmcia-css which it wanted to uninstall. I declined the offer.

 

All this leads me to conclude that there may be some kernel issues with this device; that it's not a problem with loading drivers or pcmcia-cs; and that the solution/kernel config may vary depending on which kernel you are using, i.e. the gentoo solution might not work with the mandrake kernel.

[scarecrow]

The same TI cardbus controller that Pmpatrick has does not work under Arch Linux as well (i've tried a bunch of possible solutions, none worked).

Not a biggie, since even under XP it fails to read my cameras (Sony Cybershot P-200) sticks... but since the cam is fully usb_storage compliant I could not care less- I just have to carry together the proprietary Sony USB cable.

[Guest drfelip]

I tried the pcmcia-cs and modprobe trick, but didn't work.