SD card reader in Fedora?

[Karl Larsen]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to get my SD card reader on my laptop working, it's a TI
>> based reader and from the documentation I've seen online, it's either
>> unstable or not usable in linux.  Is this the case?  Or has someone
>> managed to get it working?
>>
>>     
> I have had it working with some kernel versions, but it doesn't work
> with others. You may want to look at:
>  http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=TI_FlashMedia_xx12/xx21_driver
>
> At one time, I had it working with the standard SD modules after
> running a script to that wrote to specific registers on the chip to
> put it in the proper mode. It is not working with the 2.6.20-1.2952
> kernel... I don't use it often enough that I keep tract of when it
> is working...
>
> Mikkel
>   
    I just thought to test mine. The hardware was $10.00 so it is not 
the best from China or somewhere but it works just fine with F7 Fedora 
(2.6.21-1.3228.fc7)
 kernel and it was fine with FC6 and FC4.

    My 2GB sim loaded right up as expected.

Karl