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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by jontyrp View Post
    On anther note, I was able to use Bluetooth in Ubuntu without any problems on my system. Are you sure you have a Bluetooth equiped model? It's a Broadcom 2046 Bluetooth 2.1+EDR chip in my AspireONE, and this worked fine in both 9.10 & 10.04, as well as now in Windows 7.
    I did a little research on this particular model, and it doesn't have a Bluetooth module installed (even if the F3 key has the Bluetooth icon under it). It appears that you can order a BT module for this model.

    Oh, and I wouldn't even begin to know how to write a driver module. Anyone else up for a challenge?

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    Question Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    I too heard, or read, on the net that the problem originally lies with the BIOS of the computer and that the problem can be fixed by updating the BIOS, but I'm always a bit paranoid when it comes to messing around in the BIOS or something.

    jason

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    what does your computer say when you try the command
    Code:
    tail -f /var/log/messages
    jason

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    This works for OpenSUSE 11.2 on an Acer One Aspire AOA110:
    http://old-en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_...e#Card_readers

    Any idea where the equivalent to /etc/sysconfig would be on Ubuntu 10.04? I am using the Netbook Remix and it is a great deal faster than Suse, and the interface is very good. The card reader works if you boot with a card in the slot, but having had the above work in Suse I need to sort it for Ubuntu. Everything else works fine.

    UPDATE
    After searching this forum for "acer card reader", I found this:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=974525

    And tried a few variations. In the end I just added the line: pciehp to the /etc/modules file like this:
    # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
    #
    # This file contains the names of kernel modules that should be loaded
    # at boot time, one per line. Lines beginning with "#" are ignored.

    lp
    pciehp
    Now the left card reader works everytime. I can't get the right reader to work yet.

    I also looked at the instructions here:
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/As...L#Card Readers but they seem to be a bit out of date.

    Since I mainly use this netbook for the web, e-mail, and to look at photos from my digital camera, I am perfectly happy with the functionality now have.
    Last edited by sid1950; September 10th, 2010 at 01:10 PM. Reason: updated

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by the-penguin View Post
    what does your computer say when you try the command
    Code:
    tail -f /var/log/messages
    jason
    Sorry, Jason. I've been offline for awhile.

    Code:
    Sep 10 15:39:48 onestar-acer kernel: [   18.697177] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
    Sep 10 15:39:48 onestar-acer kernel: [   18.762417] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
    Sep 10 15:39:51 onestar-acer kernel: [   22.114845] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
    Sep 10 15:40:21 onestar-acer nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Tracker 2.30.2 initializing...
    Sep 10 15:40:21 onestar-acer nautilus: [N-A] Nautilus-Actions Menu Extender 2.30.2 initializing...
    Sep 10 15:40:33 onestar-acer kernel: [   63.334413] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
    Sep 10 15:43:32 onestar-acer kernel: [  265.040211] __ratelimit: 3 callbacks suppressed
    Sep 10 15:43:32 onestar-acer kernel: [  265.040224] gnome-power-man[1316]: segfault at 1 ip 0041f13b sp bfee2700 error 4 in libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0.2000.1[322000+3cd000]
    Sep 10 15:51:20 onestar-acer kernel: [  732.972134] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
    Sep 10 15:51:20 onestar-acer kernel: [  733.107139] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    The command prompt locks at this point and doesn't drop me back to a prompt. I have to CTRL-C to continue. Not sure if that's normal...

    P.S. The info above is with a card in the slot.
    Last edited by mordalo; September 10th, 2010 at 09:57 PM. Reason: Adding additional info.

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by sid1950 View Post
    This works for OpenSUSE 11.2 on an Acer One Aspire AOA110:
    http://old-en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_...e#Card_readers

    Any idea where the equivalent to /etc/sysconfig would be on Ubuntu 10.04? I am using the Netbook Remix and it is a great deal faster than Suse, and the interface is very good. The card reader works if you boot with a card in the slot, but having had the above work in Suse I need to sort it for Ubuntu. Everything else works fine.

    UPDATE
    After searching this forum for "acer card reader", I found this:
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=974525

    And tried a few variations. In the end I just added the line: pciehp to the /etc/modules file like this:

    Now the left card reader works everytime. I can't get the right reader to work yet.

    I also looked at the instructions here:
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/As...L#Card Readers but they seem to be a bit out of date.

    Since I mainly use this netbook for the web, e-mail, and to look at photos from my digital camera, I am perfectly happy with the functionality now have.
    Sid, I saw these as well, but it doesn't work for my particular netbook. There's only one card reader in the 250h, and I installed Ubuntu both with and without a card in the slot.

    I did notice that, when a card is inserted in the slot, the drive indicator light does come on, which pretty much confirms it's a driver issue for this particular model.

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    @ Moraldo

    the command i gave you will monitor some log files, so when it freezes it really just continues to monitor the log files.. if you run the command and then remove, or insert the SD card the terminal output will change..
    Freedom - It's a human thing.

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by the-penguin View Post
    @ Moraldo

    the command i gave you will monitor some log files, so when it freezes it really just continues to monitor the log files.. if you run the command and then remove, or insert the SD card the terminal output will change..
    Ah. Pardon my ignorance.

    The last two lines:

    [CODE]
    Sep 10 15:51:20 onestar-acer kernel: [ 732.972134] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
    Sep 10 15:51:20 onestar-acer kernel: [ 733.107139] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
    [\CODE]

    They appear when the SD card is inserted. Also, as I might've mentioned, the light on the netbook appears indicating there's a card in the slot.

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by the-penguin View Post
    what does your computer say when you try the command
    Code:
    tail -f /var/log/messages
    jason
    Hi Jason

    I just tried the command, and plugged in a card ..
    [1527.800097] usb 1-5: new high speed USB devide using ehci_hcd and address 3
    [1527.934473] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

    after that I did a lsusb and compared ..

    new line that changed from before the card was inserted is :
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0cf2:6250 ENE Technology, Inc.

    So would I be correct then in guessing that Ubuntu can see that something is happening on the Card Reader but doesn't have the driver to do anything about it ?!?!

    Cheers from Vancouver

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    Re: SD Card reader not working on Acer Aspire One

    Quote Originally Posted by g01d10x View Post
    So would I be correct then in guessing that Ubuntu can see that something is happening on the Card Reader but doesn't have the driver to do anything about it ?!?!
    Cool. So who knows how to make a driver? I'm a hardware geek, not a programmer...

    Seriously. Anyone out there wanna try their hand at compiling a driver?

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