Hi, I have a SD slot on HPnx 5000 laptop. it doesn't work on FC4. My impression is that Linux doesn't support this slot because of the SD proprietary issue. Instead, I use a USB card reader, it works well. On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:10 +0100, Giuseppe Castagno wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a problem with a 1GB SD memory card. > When I inserted the card I got, in /var/log/messages the following: > > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx kernel: 2.6. kernels use pcmciamtd instead of > memory_cs.c and do not require special > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx kernel: MTD handling any more. > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: executing: 'modprobe memory_cs > 2>&1' > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: + FATAL: Module memory_cs not > found. > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: modprobe exited with status 1 > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: > module /lib/modules/2.6.14-1.1653_FC4.gc01/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not > available > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: bind 'memory_cs' to socket 0 > failed: Invalid argument > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: executing: 'modprobe -r memory_cs > 2>&1' > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: + FATAL: Module memory_cs not > found. > Jan 8 17:55:52 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: modprobe exited with status 1 > Jan 8 17:55:53 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: unsupported card in socket 0 > Jan 8 17:55:53 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: product info: "RICOH", > "Bay1Controller" > Jan 8 17:55:53 nbklx cardmgr[1898]: function: 254 ((null)) > > Hardware is: Notebook ASUS W1J00GC. > > The OS is: > > [beppe@nbklx linux-2.6.14]$ uname -a > Linux nbklx.tecsa 2.6.14-1.1656_FC4.gc01 #1 Sun Jan 8 21:32:34 CET 2006 > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > > The kernel is '.gc01' because I added a small patch to the ACPI in order > to have it working on this kind of notebook. > > The SD card works perfectly using Windows XP installed in another > partition of the same machine. > > After some research I got the impression that the needed module > (pcmciamtd) is in the source tree, but for some reason was not added to > the configuration. > > The kernel config flag is CONFIG_MTD_PCMIA. > > Does someone know why this flag is not even present in the configuration > files (e.g. kernel-2.6.14-i686.config) of the current kernel ? > > Regards, > > Giuseppe Castagno. >
