problem with SD memory module on FC4

[Giuseppe Castagno]

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 at 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.