Internal SD card reader, Dell laptop

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon Sep 5 03:50:56 PDT 2005


On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:24:33AM +0100, Ben Paley wrote:
> 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?

I think so. According to the following page,
http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc/insp6000/p-proc.html#sd it is a Ricoh
R5c576A chip. Looking at the Ricoh page for this chip,
http://www.ricoh.com/LSI/product_pcif/pcc/5c576a/ there seems to be no
programming info available.

AFAICT, there is no Linux driver either, but someone seems to be working
on it: http://list.drzeus.cx/pipermail/wbsd-devel/2005-March/000261.html
You could try contacting this person to see how far his efforts have
come, and who the FreeBSD kernel developer is who is working on this.

Roland

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