Ricoh R5C833 Card Reader not working?

[FortyCaliber]

Ladies and Gentlemen -

I recently purchased an M1330. I have since installed (and and am now using) 8.04.1 on it. I am conducting an experiment with myself to see if a strict Linux lifestyle (at least on my laptop) is feasible.

I've hit a snag. In an attempt to accomplish all that I do in Windows, in Ubuntu, I have found that the SD card reader does not work.

Ricoh R5C833 Media Reader and 1394 Adapter

It should be noted that this is my first major foray into Linux. I dabble in Backtrack when the, um, need arises, but I'm not familiar, really, at all.

When I insert the SD card, nothing shows up, anywhere. I expected a drive icon to appear on the desktop as one does when a USB drive is inserted, but nothing shows.

Searching the Computer shows no additional drive devices. Synaptic Package searches yield no results for "Ricoh."

I require assistance.

Thanks

[sergiom99]

please post the outputs of
lspci
lsusb

good luck.

[FortyCaliber]

This is the pertinent info concerning Ricoh. It seems I had the controller model wrong, but it seems to be recognized, right?

LSPCI

03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)

LSUSB

Bus 007 Device 003: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 004: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

[sergiom99]

well, its detected and it worked out of the box in mine.
But theres no linux support for Sony MemorySticks yet.
Is that the type of card you're using?

[FortyCaliber]

No, I am using SD (who uses Memory Stick?)

I tried to different cards and when I insert it, nothing happens.

Where should I be looking?

[sergiom99]

Sony cameras use MS.
Sorry, thats the only one I have. And I have to read them in WinXP anyway.

Did you find anything searching the whole forums?