Re: SD card reader (Winbond)

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On 2/8/07, David G. Miller <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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 ]------------------------>

>
> 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
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.

It is a built-in card reader. I used a USB 5 in 1 reader without any
problems, but my built-in card reader is not working (but detected),
so I think I'm missing something.


Cheers,
Dave

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