Thursday, December 04, 2008

sd reader on hp laptop

Check what you have


~ $ /usr/sbin/lspci |grep "Card Reader"
02:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)


make menuconfig and enable


Device Drivers --->
[*] Misc devices --->
-*- TI Flash Media interface support
<*> TI Flash Media PCI74xx/PCI76xx host adapter support

Device Drivers --->
<*> MMC/SD card support --->
<*> MMC block device driver
<*> TI Flash Media MMC/SD Interface support


then re-compile the kernel, reboot. When I insert
a SD card I see (dmesg)


tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1
mmc0: new SD card at address b368
mmcblk0: mmc0:b368 SD 1997312KiB
mmcblk0: p1


finally


mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/floppy/

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