[gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop

[gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop

[Mark Haney]

I have a Compaq R4000 laptop, with a multifunction Card Reader in it
(SD/MMC/SM, etc). The documentation for this is kinda lacking, so I'm
asking the list, has anyone got one of these buggers working in Gentoo?

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop

[Javi Moreno]

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On 7/5/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>
> I have a Compaq R4000 laptop, with a multifunction Card Reader in it
> (SD/MMC/SM, etc). The documentation for this is kinda lacking, so I'm
> asking the list, has anyone got one of these buggers working in Gentoo?


Is a TI??? I have a NC6400 and it uses and TI reader.

The driver is broken in the 2.6.19 and 2.6.20. Which kernel are you using?
Now I'm using 2.6.21

When I was using a 2.6.18 it needed some tweaking, I used 'setpci -s 02:06.2
4c.b=02' in my local.start

Good luck!

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop

[Mark Haney]

Javi Moreno wrote:
> On 7/5/07, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Compaq R4000 laptop, with a multifunction Card Reader in it
>> (SD/MMC/SM, etc). The documentation for this is kinda lacking, so I'm
>> asking the list, has anyone got one of these buggers working in Gentoo?
> 
> 
> Is a TI??? I have a NC6400 and it uses and TI reader.
> 
> The driver is broken in the 2.6.19 and 2.6.20. Which kernel are you using?
> Now I'm using 2.6.21
> 
> When I was using a 2.6.18 it needed some tweaking, I used 'setpci -s
> 02:06.2
> 4c.b=02' in my local.start
> 
> Good luck!

Yeah it's a TI, and i"m running 2.6.21-gentoo-r3 right now.  So how do I
set it up?  I can't find any reasonable documentation on it.



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Re: [gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop

[Javi Moreno]

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With the 2.6.21 I don't need any tweak, at least for me.

First configure the kernel

# cd /usr/src/linux
# make menuconfig


Under Device Drivers I have MMC Support selected, MMC block device driver
and Secure Digital Host Controller Inferface Support as well.
Then TI Flash Media as module.

If you are first selecting this option you'll have to reboot with the new
kernel.
If not you can compile and load the module tifm_sd. After modprobing you can
run update-modules to have that module loaded always.

# make && make modules_install
# cp arch/'YOUR ARCH'/boot/bzImage /boot/'YOUR KERNEL'
# reboot (not needed depending on what you had on your previous kernel)

# modprobe tifm_sd
# update-modules

The device will be named /dev/mmcblk0, /dev/mmcblk0p1 for firt partition and
so on.

Now mount, you'll need vfat fs support.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop {SOLVED}

[Mark Haney]

Javi Moreno wrote:

> # make && make modules_install
> # cp arch/'YOUR ARCH'/boot/bzImage /boot/'YOUR KERNEL'
> # reboot (not needed depending on what you had on your previous kernel)
> 
> # modprobe tifm_sd
> # update-modules
> 
> The device will be named /dev/mmcblk0, /dev/mmcblk0p1 for firt partition
> and
> so on.
> 
> Now mount, you'll need vfat fs support.
> 

Yep that did it.  The problem I had was that I was compiling mmc_core
and mmc_blk(?) as modules and they wouldn't load that way.  Once I built
them into the kernel and left tifm_sd, etc. as modules they all played
nice and now I can use my SD card.

Thanks for the help.


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Re: [gentoo-amd64] SD Card reader, HP/Compaq latptop {SOLVED}

[Beso]

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2007/7/6, Mark Haney <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>:
>
> Javi Moreno wrote:
>
> > # make && make modules_install
> > # cp arch/'YOUR ARCH'/boot/bzImage /boot/'YOUR KERNEL'
> > # reboot (not needed depending on what you had on your previous kernel)
> >
> > # modprobe tifm_sd
> > # update-modules
> >
> > The device will be named /dev/mmcblk0, /dev/mmcblk0p1 for firt partition
> > and
> > so on.
> >
> > Now mount, you'll need vfat fs support.
> >
>
> Yep that did it.  The problem I had was that I was compiling mmc_core
> and mmc_blk(?) as modules and they wouldn't load that way.  Once I built
> them into the kernel and left tifm_sd, etc. as modules they all played
> nice and now I can use my SD card.


you can also build them as modules, and then add them  as 2 lines in
/etc/modules.autoload/kernel-2.6 file and they will be loaded at the top of
start of local and imedeately after the start of boot services.... this is a
way of loading modules that udev will not load by default and that you still
want to load at boot....

Thanks for the help.
>
>
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>
> Mark Haney
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>


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