Alienware Area 51m SD card slot.

[David Fletcher]

On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 13:10 -0800, Duncan Clark wrote:
> I'm relearning Linux after a long sabbatical.  (I mostly used it in 
> middle school in 98-99), and I'm hitting one wall that I think I just 
> need to be pointed in a good direction to solve this.
> 
> My SD card slot does not auto-mount or recognise on my Area 51m laptop, 
> and I don't know what device it should be showing up as.  Is there a 
> command I can use to try and manually mount it?  If not, what drivers 
> would I be looking for or setting up?
> -Duncan
> 

I've got one of these in my old Toshiba laptop. Mine doesn't work
either. lspci produces
Toshiba America Info Systems SD TypA Controller (rev 03)
for which so far as I can tell there is no Linux driver.

I just use my cards with a cheap USB reader which works fine.

Dave