Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

Ben Paley ben at spooty.net
Mon Sep 5 03:24:42 PDT 2005


On Monday 05 September 2005 11:04, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 10:36:40AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote:
> > Anyone got any idea how I can access the built-in sd card reader on my
> > dell inspiron 6000 laptop?
>
> Is there anything in /var/log/messages?

Not so far as I can see, nor in dmesg

> If not, try 'pciconf -lv', 

$ pciconf -lv
<snip/>
none5 at pci3:1:2: class=0x080501 card=0x01881028 chip=0x08221180 rev=0x17 
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Ricoh Co Ltd'
    device   = 'SD Bus Host Adapter'
    class    = base peripheral

Is that it?

> 'usbdevs

just four empty sockets there

> and 'camcontrol devlist -v' 

Nothing there apart from the optical drive.

> to see if it is on the PCI, USB or  
> SCSI bus respectively.

So, PCI then? How do I go about my kernel config to get it detected?

> If you can't get it to work, the SanDisk SDDR-93 sd card reader is
> supposed to work with Linux, so using it with FreeBSD should be possible.

I can get to the camera with its cable, though it's a bit slow - I just wanted 
the convenience of using the built-in reader, since it's there!

Thanks a lot for your advice


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