HOWTO: Make your TI internal card reader work for you

[ThrobbingBrain66]

When you have the card inserted, look around in /media or /dev for any files or folders contain the card's name.

Also, enter

sudo fdisk -l

and see if it lists your card there


For example, my fdisk output looks like this:

Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         663     5325516   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             664       12096    91835572+  83  Linux
/dev/sda3           12097       12161      522112+  82  Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1030 MB, 1030225920 bytes
4 heads, 3 sectors/track, 167680 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 12 * 512 = 6144 bytes

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1              21      167680     1005958+   6  FAT16

[galroth]

No changes in /media or /dev when I inserted the card, and my fdisk -l only showed my hard drive.

[ThrobbingBrain66]

I'll do more research when I have some time. Although I think you may have to wait until the tifm_xd module is implemented. Have you tried an SD card at all?

[galroth]

Unfortunately, I don't have an SD card. Thanks for all your help, though. I look forward to being able to wipe Winblows from my laptop permanently.

[heffo_j]

Thanks for the How To:

I've got the internal reader on my HPdv2000 working with the MMC/SD card but not the XD. Is this soemthing still in the development stage or is there are fix?

Regards
John

[ThrobbingBrain66]

Thanks for the How To:

I've got the internal reader on my HPdv2000 working with the MMC/SD card but not the XD. Is this soemthing still in the development stage or is there are fix?

Regards
John

All the research I've done leads me to believe that the xD module is still in development, but I'm still looking around for a solution.

[rcrook]

Awesome,

Worked a charm.

Thanks

Randall.

[chudder]

I've tried the same thing and I get nothing at all, maybe I'm just not noticing something but nothing is happening so I don't think that is the case.

0000:07:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b

sudo setpci -s 07:06.2 4c.b=0x02

[ThrobbingBrain66]

I've tried the same thing and I get nothing at all, maybe I'm just not noticing something but nothing is happening so I don't think that is the case.

0000:07:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b

sudo setpci -s 07:06.2 4c.b=0x02

what kind of card are you using?

[chudder]

Originally Posted by chudder
I've tried the same thing and I get nothing at all, maybe I'm just not noticing something but nothing is happening so I don't think that is the case.

0000:07:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 803b 
sudo setpci -s 07:06.2 4c.b=0x02

Posted by ThrobbingBrain66
what kind of card are you using?

I'm using an SD card, I hope to also use Memory Stick but I remember you didn't mention that in the beginning, I just want to focus on the SD right now. I don't know if this makes a difference but I'm in Dapper as well. I haven't switched to Edgy because I got my wireless working and I don't want to potentially jeopardize that.