SD Card Reader

[Pete Smout]

On 08/03/12 09:26, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

Just to make you aware when a member of my family upgraded his Sony Viao 
PC from Win VISTA to 7 he had the same issue with inbuilt card reader, 
we googled and searched for relevant drivers, but never found them (even 
direct from Sony), he solved it by finding a cheap (£5) USB one and we 
aint bothered since!! But it is not a Ubuntu / LINUX issue exclusively!

No I cant persuade him to use *buntu dispite my best efforts he says 
'I've spent too much money on software now to change!' which kinda 
defeats the object but each to there own!

>> 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
>