OK I got this USB SD card reader and I stick the 128MB SD card from my camera the blue light flashes a couple times then goes solid blue. I lspci and get

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ lsusb
Bus 005 Device 005: ID 0ea0:2153 Ours Technology, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:3f11 Hewlett-Packard PSC-1315/PSC-1317
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 041e:4036 Creative Technology, Ltd Webcam Live!/Live! Pro
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I dmesg |grep sdb and get

ka9qlq@dittohead:~$ dmesg |grep sdb
[17749819.172000] SCSI device sdb: 245504 512-byte hdwr sectors (126 MB)
[17749819.172000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17749819.172000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17749819.172000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17749819.176000] SCSI device sdb: 245504 512-byte hdwr sectors (126 MB)
[17749819.176000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17749819.176000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17749819.176000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17749819.176000] sdb: sdb1
[17749819.176000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17749820.228000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 245499
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245400
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245401
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245402
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245403
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245404
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245400
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245401
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245402
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245403
[17749820.228000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 245404
[17749820.276000] SCSI device sdb: 245504 512-byte hdwr sectors (126 MB)
[17749820.276000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17749820.276000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17749820.276000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
[17749821.148000] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 245499
[17749821.188000] SCSI device sdb: 245504 512-byte hdwr sectors (126 MB)
[17749821.188000] sdb: Write Protect is off
[17749821.188000] sdb: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17749821.188000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through

What am I doing wrong? It works fine in the camera.
Kubuntu 6.10 Intell 2.93 ghz 1 gb ram

Hi,

I had a simular problem on my Card Reader for my Acer Aspire Laptop and it turned out that the chip the card used was not recognized by Linux. Can you try a different card reader to see if you have the same problem.

Well I could look at the card when it was in the camera on other Distros but it seems Kubuntu wont play nice. I ask on the Kubuntu forums and someone said to use a webcam driver but how will that work on the card reader?
Alvin

Hi,

Not sure about using webcam drivers for your Camera/Card thats a bit beyond my knowledge, but I wouldn't have thought that it would work. I do know there are some bugs in Edgy with regards to Cameras as I cant connect my EOS 400D, but I can connect it in other distros, from what I have seen on various forums, looks like this is fixed in Feisty Fawn release. You cold try the Live CD for Feisty Fawn and see if it fixes your problem.