At 5:10 PM +1030 10/28/07, Tim wrote: >I have an Asus PRO31J F3JC laptop with a Ricoh SD card reader that >Fedora is slightly aware that it's in the computer, but doesn't actually >do anything with it. I gave Ubuntu (7.10) a try last night, and it can >read from the card. I know little about Ubuntu, other than it being >Debian in disguise (and I've never used Debian), to know whether we can >purloin anything from it to use with Fedora. Does anybody know if we >can? > >Fedora's lspci|grep Ricoh output: >06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller >06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 >SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) >06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01) >06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host >Adapter (rev 0a) > >Ubuntu's lspci|grep Ricoh output: >Fedora's lspci|grep Ricoh output: >06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller >06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 >SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19) >06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controler (rev 01) >06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host >Adapter (rev 0a) > >Yes, the in-built card read is a PCI device. And, yes, I can read my SD >cards using an external USB adaptor, but it's not convenient having >things hanging out of the laptop. No, I can't add a PCMCIA card reader, >the laptop has an ExpressCard slot, instead, and I've not seen anybody >selling those, nor do I know if they'll be supported. > >-- >[tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr >2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386 > >Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Does the problem only happen on F7, or on FC6 as well? (It could be the new Firewire stack.) I see that F7 didn't notice that it had an MMC controller (as used for optical drives); that might be something to track down. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
