SD card reader (Winbond)

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On 2/8/07, David G. Miller <dave at davenjudy.org> 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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