SD Card Reader

[Colin Law]

On 8 March 2012 06:50, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:
> Nolan,
>
> On 07/03/2012 21:58, Nolan wrote:
>> On 03/07/2012 12:21 PM, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>> Nolan wrote:
>>>
>>>> Talking about help. ???
>>>> May I please ask why I have not had any response on my problem of my
>>>> SD card reader? The problem still exists, and I have not been able to
>>>> fine a solution, except to buy and external usb reader.
>>> Usually it's because nobody here knows the answer either.
>> I thought about that, then reasoned that if that was /true/ none of you have a laptop with
>> the SD card reader working in Linux. Here Ubuntu-10.04 (Lucid Lynx).
> Actually no. There are many SD Card readers out there on laptops. Some
> older models had very specific, proprietary, interfaces for the SD Card
> readers, while a USB-connected SD Card reader would work out of the box,
> the native, internal one would not, and likely will never, until
> somebody reverse engineers the hardware on your laptop.
>
> I've had this on a Toshiba laptop. Everything worked but the internal SD
> Card reader. I decided to get over it and use a USB card reader. Never
> looked back.

I had a similar issue and bought one from ebay for £2.65 [1].  It
handles several card types unlike the built in reader.

[1] http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/USB-2-0-MEMORY-CARD-READER-SD-MICRO-SDHC-MMC-M2-/370592478577?pt=UK_Photography_MemoryCardReaders_RL&hash=item5649087571

Colin