Sony laptop internal memory stick reader setup in Suse 10.0

Stump · 02-15-2006, 08:47 PM

I have a sony pcg-frv35, and I've installed SUSE 10.0 on it. I've got almost everything on it working normally, but I don't know where to begin with the internal memory stick reader. I haven't really worried about it so far because I have a usb one that works fine. It would be nice to have all of it working though.

Any thoughts?

rk_carol · 02-15-2006, 11:04 PM

If by "Internal memory stick" you mean an SD or and SDIO card, then you may have a problem under linux, since the SD stack is not opensource and hence there are no free implementations under the kernel.

There are proprietory stacks available for a fee, from quite a few vendors.

USB based storage media don't have that problem since USB specifications are freely downloadable. You can't even download the SD specifications ( or PCMCIA or CardBus ) freely. They are paid subscriptions ( like IEEE documents ).

RK

FreeThinkerJim · 02-16-2006, 03:24 PM

Actually, IIRC the internal memory stick reader is basically treated by the kernel as an external USB card reader would. I had a sony vaio that I put linux on a while ago (it has since broken) and it worked perfectly out of the box. I'm not sure why yours isn't working if you can get a usb card reader to work though...

You might want to try posting the output of the dmesg command (go into a terminal and type dmesg) That'll tell us if the computer is picking up the reader or not.