can't read from a Ricoh SD (Secure Digital) card reader

[Tony Nelson]

At 5:10 PM +1030 10/28/07, Tim wrote:
>I have an Asus PRO31J F3JC laptop with a Ricoh SD card reader that
>Fedora is slightly aware that it's in the computer, but doesn't actually
>do anything with it.  I gave Ubuntu (7.10) a try last night, and it can
>read from the card.  I know little about Ubuntu, other than it being
>Debian in disguise (and I've never used Debian), to know whether we can
>purloin anything from it to use with Fedora.  Does anybody know if we
>can?
>
>Fedora's lspci|grep Ricoh output:
>06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
>06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
>SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
>06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 01)
>06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
>Adapter (rev 0a)
>
>Ubuntu's lspci|grep Ricoh output:
>Fedora's lspci|grep Ricoh output:
>06:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
>06:01.1 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
>SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 19)
>06:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controler (rev 01)
>06:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
>Adapter (rev 0a)
>
>Yes, the in-built card read is a PCI device.  And, yes, I can read my SD
>cards using an external USB adaptor, but it's not convenient having
>things hanging out of the laptop.  No, I can't add a PCMCIA card reader,
>the laptop has an ExpressCard slot, instead, and I've not seen anybody
>selling those, nor do I know if they'll be supported.
>
>--
>[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
>2.6.22.9-91.fc7 i686 i386
>
>Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

Does the problem only happen on F7, or on FC6 as well?  (It could be the
new Firewire stack.)  I see that F7 didn't notice that it had an MMC
controller (as used for optical drives); that might be something to track
down.
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