I have a sony vaio pcg-frv27 lap top with a built in memory card reader. Also for my desktop I have a scandisk 8-in-1 memory card reader. When I google I'm not coming up with many results for linux drivers for these.

Does anyone know of a resource or guide to getting the flash/memory card readers (digital camera card readers) to recognize in linux? If I can get this done my family will be willing to switch 100% to linux (after I get the wpa-psk figured out for the wireless broadband .

If anyone has any experience with this please let me know.

I'm using Fedora Core 4 as set up and updated according to http://www.stanton-finley.net guide for FC4. I update using the yum repositories and configuration on the stanton-finley website.

I'm also not a commandline guru either and I've been spoiled by plug and play in windoze. I'm learning but it's slow. I learn by experience. It's hard to sift through pages of documents written for technical experts and try to weed out the information I need while researching what this means or what that is. So I do apologize for not being at the level of experience of most others.

Thanks for any help you can provide

With an up-to-date kernel these things shouldn't need a separate driver. Their all covered under usb mass storage drivers (built into the kernel) and mount as scsi devices.

What kind of messages do you get from 'dmesg' (type dmesg at a command prompt) when you insert any type of media into the slots?

I have been using a SanDisk card reader for years with no problem. In my current Ubuntu,it pops up on the desktop as soon as you insert the card.

sorry for taking so long here. I've been wrestling with getting wpa to work on my wireless (unsuccessfully)

When I type dmesg I get a HUGE output. I've tried to weed through it to see if I can recognize the card reader but nothing.

When I insert the memory stick into the reader the light doesn't even come on (in the stick) like it does for windoze. below is the very lengthy output from dmesg

# dmesg
Linux version 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 (bhcompile@tweety.build.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.0.2 20051125 (Red Hat 4.0.2-8 )) #1 Tue Feb 7 13:37:42 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000dc000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bf70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf70000 - 000000001bf7c000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf7c000 - 000000001bf80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf80000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000002bf80000 - 000000002c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
447MB LOWMEM available.
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
On node 0 totalpages: 114544
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 110448 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMI present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6fe0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1bf774d1
ACPI: FADT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 PTL 0x000f4240) @ 0x1bf7bf64
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1bf7bfd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 SONY K7 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC disabled (-2); pass 'lapic' to re-enable.
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 2c000000:d3f80000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (01383000)
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c0413000 soft=c0412000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 32768 bytes)
Detected 2658.257 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 448948k/458176k available (2148k kernel code, 8620k reserved, 774k data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 5320.86 BogoMIPS (lpj=10641738)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00004400 00000000 00000000
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf1ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00004400 00000000 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz stepping 07
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c00)
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1066k freed
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd8a0, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI quirk: region 8000-803f claimed by ali7101 ACPI
PCI quirk: region 8040-805f claimed by ali7101 SMB
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *10 11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 10) *11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 24)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PPB_._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 13 devices
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x480-0x48f has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x4d6-0x4d6 has been reserved
pnp: 00:04: ioport range 0x8000-0x807f could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: e0500000-e05fffff
PREFETCH window: f0000000-f7ffffff
PCI: Bus 2, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:0a.0
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 30000000-31ffffff
MEM window: 32000000-33ffffff
PCI: Bus 6, cardbus bridge: 0000:00:0a.1
IO window: 00001800-000018ff
IO window: 00001c00-00001cff
PREFETCH window: 34000000-35ffffff
MEM window: 36000000-37ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 11
PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.1[B] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Simple Boot Flag at 0x35 set to 0x1
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1140717329.436:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
Initializing Cryptographic API
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key BBAAC818B8690C98
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ01] (34 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
agpgart: Detected Ati IGP345M chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xe8000000
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f13:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 0) is a 16550
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:03.0[A] -> Link [LNK6] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
0000:00:03.0: ttyS1 at I/O 0x8428 (irq = 11) is a 8250
0000:00:03.0: ttyS2 at I/O 0x8440 (irq = 11) is a 8250
0000:00:03.0: ttyS3 at I/O 0x8450 (irq = 11) is a 8250
Couldn't register serial port 0000:00:03.0: -28
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:0f.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0f.0[A]: no GSI
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x80c0-0x80c7, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x80c8-0x80cf, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: ST9100823A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-R6012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 195371568 sectors (100030 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 >
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ide-floppy driver 0.99.newide
usbcore: registered new driver libusual
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 4.39
NET: Registered protocol family 2
input: AT Raw Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 327680 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
Initializing IPsec netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
PCI0 SLT1 CDBS ENET MODM USB1 USB2 USB3
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 337k
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
input: PS/2 Mouse as /class/input/input1
input: AlpsPS/2 ALPS GlidePoint as /class/input/input2
security: 3 users, 6 roles, 889 types, 109 bools
security: 55 classes, 244452 rules
SELinux: Completing initialization.
SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda7, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs
SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> Link [LNK1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc866c00, 08:00:46:a7:0b:c3, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link [LNK7] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
AC'97 1 does not respond - RESET
AC'97 1 access is not valid [0xffffffff], removing mixer.
ali mixer 1 creating error.
ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:06.0: ALI15X3_smb region uninitialized - upgrade BIOS or use force_addr=0xaddr
ali15x3_smbus 0000:00:06.0: ALI15X3 not detected, module not inserted.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.2[C] -> Link [LNK5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Via IRQ fixup for 0000:00:0c.2, from 11 to 10
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: irq 10, io mem 0xe0404800
ehci_hcd 0000:00:0c.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.0: irq 11, io base 0x00008080
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0c.1[B] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:0c.1: irq 10, io base 0x000080a0
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.0 [104d:8158]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00a8, PCI irq 11
Socket status: 30000820
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.1[B] -> Link [LNK4] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:00:0a.1 [104d:8158]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x00a8, PCI irq 10
Socket status: 30000006
pccard: CardBus card inserted into slot 0
ieee1394: Initialized config rom entry `ip1394'
ohci1394: $Rev: 1313 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:0a.2[C] -> Link [LNK5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
ohci1394: fw-host0: OHCI-1394 1.0 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[e0404000-e04047ff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[08004603016702dc]
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
cdrom: open failed.
cdrom: open failed.
EXT3 FS on hda7, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda6, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda6, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda9, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda9, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
SELinux: initialized (dev hda5, type vfat), uses genfs_contexts
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/hda8. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1052216k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (3579 buckets, 28632 max) - 232 bytes per conntrack
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x800-0x8ff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x4ff: excluding 0x200-0x207 0x220-0x22f 0x330-0x337 0x378-0x37f 0x388-0x38f
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean.
eth0: link down
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver lsbcmnds (The Linksys Group, Inc.,02/14/2005, 3.90.36.0) loaded
PCI: Enabling device 0000:02:00.0 (0000 -> 0002)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:00.0[A] -> Link [LNK2] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:02:00.0 to 64
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
wlan0: vendor: ''
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0f:66:45:6b:dc using driver lsbcmnds, 14E4:4320.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.6
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
lp0: console ready
serial8250: too much work for irq11
serial8250: too much work for irq11
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.0 20040925
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> Link [LNK0] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[drm] Initialized radeon 1.19.0 20050911 on minor 0:
mtrr: 0xf0000000,0x8000000 overlaps existing 0xf0000000,0x4000000
agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:05.0 into 4x mode
application mixer_applet2 uses obsolete OSS audio interface
application firefox-bin uses obsolete OSS audio interface
[root@localhost english]#

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Hello Im having the same problem, I bought a lenovo laptop and it came with a SD, MMC, MS, MSpro internal card reader and an internal webcam but i really have no idea of how to get them to work.

Im running Fedora Core 4 on the 2.6.14 kernel(currently updating to 2.6.15)

This is the output of the /sbin/lspci command:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce Go 6200 TurboCache (rev a1)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG (rev 05)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB-712/4 Cardbus Controller (rev 10)
02:04.1 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Memory Stick Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
02:04.2 Class 0805: ENE Technology Inc ENE PCI Secure Digital Card Reader Controller (rev 01)
02:04.4 FLASH memory: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 0551 (rev 01)


I suppose the last four are the card reader.

dmesg gives me an error that repeats itself and some other stuff but couldnt find anything that had to do with the card reader, the error is the following:


ACPI-0412: *** Error: Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returned AE_TIME
ACPI-0508: *** Error: Method execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node c14dc3a0), AE_TIME


Also i have an integrated webcam but have no idea of where to look for that one to get it to work? any suggestions for anything would be really gratefull.

I have an external generic card reader i can connect through usb and that works perfectly, didnt even needed to install anything but the internal one doesnt work at all, so Im supposing I need some drivers for it dont I?

I got memory card reader on my HP nx6125 and running Suse 10 could any one tell my how to mount the data on a memory card that is inserted an how I can find out if it has picked up the memory card.

I am not much more than a newbie myself but I would do some low level trouble shooting. Try to plug in a usb card reader into a slot and see if it will read from that. If the same you might insert a card, go to your partition manager and see if it is recognized. I have a serial hard disk that shows up as sda. My multiport card reader plugs into a usb port on the mthbrd. When I insert a card it shows up on my partition manager as sdc and is automatically mounted to /mnt/kodac. If it shows up as an unmounted drive then mount it.

Thats as deep as I can go; already over my head.

rock

Any advice on how to list the device I have plugged in I know you can use lsscsi for seeing if external HD is plugged in.

i am also having trouble mounting my internal cf port. i started a thread here:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=441826
anyone found any answers yet?

To find out if your linux is recognizing anything such as a USB device or one of these cards, you can use the following command:
tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
You may need to be root but once something is plugged in and recognized, you will see a new entry pop up and tell you which /dev it is, such as /dev/sda1. To exit this command use Ctrl-C.
I don't know about getting these cards recognized. I just compiled a new kernel on my VAIO laptop and right now I cannot read from mine either. When I figure it out I'll post back.

If it is a multicard reader for a RH9 or 2.4 distro try adding to /etc/modules.conf the line

options scsi_mod max_scsi_luns=8

For CentOS4.3 or 2.6 distro try adding to /etc/modprobe.conf

options scsi_mod max_luns=8

Not sure about why single card readers would not work though.