HP Mini Netbook - Built-in SD Card Reader Undetected

[seanod]

I apologize if there is another thread for this already, but I've been unable to find a working solution.

I'm running Fedora 13 on my HP Mini netbook. All devices are working properly, with the exception of the built-in SD Card Reader. I'm trying to load an SDHC card from my Canon EOS T1i. The Card Reader is not recognized via 'lspci', nor does the partition appear in 'fdisk -l'.

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation N10 Family DMI Bridge
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation N10 Family Integrated Graphics Controller
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation N10/ICH7 Family SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation N10/ICH 7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 04)
01:00.1 Class ff00: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5288 (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

Also, when I try to plug my camera in directly via USB, the camera itself is detected under 'lsusb', but the media is not detected by fdisk, or automounted like I'd assume it would.

# lsusb 
....
Bus 001 Device 051: ID 04a9:31cf Canon, Inc. 
...

The USB Device is also at least acknowledged via 'dmesg', where as inserting the SD card to the reader yields no results to 'dmesg' or '/var/logs/messages'.

# dmesg | tail
usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 51
usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04a9, idProduct=31cf
usb 1-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 1-1: Product: Canon Digital Camera
usb 1-1: Manufacturer: Canon Inc.
usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 51

What packages do I need to get these devices recognized properly? This all worked fine under debian and ubuntu, so I'm pretty sure I'm just missing some essential package or library.

Please advise.

Thanks,
Sean

[cdoerbec]

My laptop has similar chipset. Got it working using the following procedure.

1) Get driver from link below. Look at section labelled "UNIX", and click on one of the links labelled 'Go'. The file you are after is rts_pstor.tar.bz2

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/...&GetDown=false

2) Ensure you have kernel-headers and kernel-devel packages installed. If you are running a PAE kernel, install kernel-PAE-devel

yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel kernel-PAE-devel

3) Unpack the compressed file, compile & install. You will need to run 'make install' as the root user.

cd /usr/local/src
bzip2 -d rts_pstor.tar.bz2
tar xvf rts_pstor.tar
cd rts_pstor
make
make install

4) Load the kernel module

depmod
modprobe rts_pstor

That's it! It should work...

Until the driver is in the upstream Linux kernel, you'll need to compile & install the driver every time you upgrade the kernel. A simple init script to check for the presence of, and compile if necessary, could automate the process.

More details here:
http://bisque.linuxsoup.com/?q=node/82

[seanod]

Awesome. Thank you! This worked perfect.

Cheers!

[cdoerbec]

Cool! Glad it helped!