problem with SD memory module on FC4

[Yuandan Zhang]

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 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.
>