hi... well... my distro is: Ubuntu, i have installed it in my laptop HP pavilion dv1000 but it does not detect my card reader and i need to get some pictures in my computer... so how can i install it?? thanks...

first tell us which type of card reader you have. therfore you should login as root ("su -") and type "lspci -v". please post the output here, then we will see, what we can do. the problem will be, if you have a sd card reader it will probably never ever be supported by linux since the sd cards have a special license or something like that which will not give linux users and developers the opportunity to develop drivers for these cards. if you have a mmc or other cards, there is some chance to get it working. you could also have a look at "www.tuxmobil.??", try google.

hope this helps for the first seconds.

ps.: i use a usb-cable to put my pictures from the digicam to the hard disk.

hello again... it saids this:

0000:02:09.3 Unknown mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8033
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 3080
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at e0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

seems to be the same i have. up to now there is no support available for that card reader - in first instance also not from texas instruments. am I right that this is a SD card reader? If so, no chance, try usb, that's all I can tell you.

yes, it is SD card reader... ok,so i cannot use it, great i will try with the usb! thanks....

that's what I found out for this Texas thing. But you can search on your own in google. try also www.tuxmobil.org. there you find a lot of interesting links, hints etc. for laptops, card readers etc.

sorry for that first bad answer...

The tuxmobil link looks promising. On my HP Pavilion, the computer came with a small adapter that you can plug into the USB port to use an SD card.

Hey guys... for those you need to enable the card reader on Dv1000 you have to do as following:

$ lspci |grep 'FlashMedia'

Result:
02:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller

We need those numbers to verify the bus access (could change from one device to another).

Create a file
$sudo nano /etc/init.d/sdhci

copy and paste the next script.

#!/bin/sh

# Get lsb functions
. /lib/lsb/init-functions

case "$1" in

start)
log_begin_msg "Configuring card reader"

modprobe fakephp || return 1
setpci -s 02:09.3 86.b=90
setpci -s 02:09.3 4c.b=02 # FlashMedia SD disable
setpci -s 02:09.3 04.b=06 # SDHCI Mem+ BusMaster+
setpci -s 02:09.3 88.b=01 # SDHCI DMA enable
modprobe sdhci || return 1

log_end_msg $?
;;

stop)
log_begin_msg "Shutting down card reader"

modprobe -r sdhci
lsmod | grep -q sdhci && return 1
setpci -s 02:09.3 88.b=00 # SDHCI DMA disable
setpci -s 02:09.3 04.b=07 # SDHCI Mem- BusMaster-
setpci -s 02:09.3 4c.b=00 # FlashMedia SD enable
setpci -s 02:09.3 86.b=d0
modprobe -r fakephp

log_end_msg $?
;;

*)
log_success_msg "Usage: /etc/init.d/sdhci start|stop"
exit 1
;;
esac

exit 0


Save the file and check for permisions
$sudo chmod 0755 /etc/init.d/sdhci
$sudo chown root:root /etc/init.d/sdhci

Initialize the device
$sudo /etc/init.d/sdhci start

And make it starts on every boot
$ sudo update-rc.d sdhci defaults

and thats all folks !!!!
Greetings....