[ubuntu-uk] ENE Technology Inc SD/MMC Card Reader Controller

[Jai Harrison]

Hey Neil,

I forgot to say thanks :)

Thank you so much for helping.

Jai

On 11/5/07, Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com> wrote:
> Hey Neil,
>
> I tried that process and not only did the WiFi still not work but the
> SD reader didn't work with the revised custom kernel either (I used
> menuconfig to configure it). I guess I should give up on my SD reader
> and buy another one (this one being external) off of Amazon or
> something. It looks like there's little hope of getting this one to
> work without the fix being applied to the generic kernel by
> Ubuntu/kernel staff (whoever is responsible for it).
>
> Jai
>
> On 11/5/07, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jai,
> >
> > On 05/11/2007, Jai Harrison <jai at jaiharrison.com> wrote:
> > > Hey Neil,
> > > On 11/4/07, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi Jai,
> > > >
> > > > Did you make sure that you used the same set-up options as the generic
> > > > kernel? If you've missed a module, or compiled something as a module
> > > > when it was built-in previously, this could break something.
> > > >
> > > > Either that, or you are missing another patch for the wireless driver
> > > > that was included in the generic Ubuntu kernel.
> > > >
> > > > Did you download the kernel source from kernel.org, or get it from the
> > > > Ubuntu repositories? If you didn't do the latter, this may be why
> > > > wireless isn't working, since you're not including the Ubuntu patches.
> > > >
> > >
> > > I did grab it from the Ubuntu repositories so that can't be the source
> > > of the problem. This one's confusing, huh? The only thing I can think
> > > is that the source in the repositories isn't what it says it is.
> > >
> >
> > What about the set-up options? The options for the installed generic
> > kernels are stored in /boot/config-<kernel-version>. You can copy this
> > file into the kernel's configuration file (IIRC, it's
> > <kernel-source-dir>/.config, but look at the dot-files in that
> > directory to be sure), then 'make menuconfig' or 'make xconfig' to
> > configure the options for your card reader. Don't change anything else
> > and hopefully the wireless will still work.
> >
> > I haven't build a kernel for a few years, and I've never used the X
> > configuration GUI, so I might have the actual commands wrong. However,
> > the basic principles are right.
> >
> > Hwyl,
> > Neil.
> >
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