Re: SD Card reader and Dell Inspiron 710m

[Mikkel]

Mauricio Vergara Ereche wrote:
>  Hi!
>  
>  I'm running a FC5 with kernel 2.6.16-1.2122_FC5
>  I've been trying to use the internal SD Card reader with my dell inspiron 
>  710m, but I haven't had luck at all.
>  
>  First of all, I try to look out the SD card as a SCSI module, but it didn't 
>  appear in /dev ...next, I try to search it with lspci and lshal and I got 
>  this:
>  
>  [root@rap src]# lshal |grep SD
>    info.product = 'PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. 
>  w/ 1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port  PHY/Link-Layer Cont. and SD/MS-Pro Sockets'  
>  (string)
>    pci.product = 'PCI7420/PCI7620 Dual Socket CardBus and Smart Card Cont. w/ 
>  1394a-2000 OHCI Two-Port  PHY/Link-Layer Cont. and SD/MS-Pro Sockets'  
>  (string)
>  
>  [root@rap src]# lspci |grep -i card
>  02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
>  02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
>  
>  So... I figure it out, that is a PCI device... but I don't know how to 
>  handle (mount) that :-S
>  
>  I tried to use the wbsd module, but doesn't show me anything as scsi, pci or 
>  usb device to be mounted from /dev
>  
>  Anybody knows how to work with this? Or maybe point me out where to look?
>  Thanks in advance.
>  
>  Mauricio
>   
If I am reading thing correctly, it should get supported in 2.6.17.
You may want to take a look at
http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Linux/Drivers/sdhci

Mikkel
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