Need help getting built-in SD card reader to work

[apock627]

Hi. I'm running VL5.8 on a Toshiba laptop (Tecra A8) which has a built-in SD card reader.

Code:

root:# lspci | grep -i sd
03:0b.3 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

I have re-compiled a 2.6.21 kernel which I think includes what I  need. I can modprobe sdhci (which also loads mmc_core. I have to separately modprobe mmc_block)

There are some posts like http://forums.scotsnewsletter.com/index.php?s=5d201e89a0b49c546935da5abb412b5e
which discuss using setpci to change one of the registers, but i don't think that applies to me because i think they had to disable another device from trying to access the reader

Then everyone seems to be able to access the device on /dev/mmcblk0p1

I get no such device. I've also tried /dev/sdb (/dev/sda is my sata hard drive) and a few other names without success.

Would device should it be called for mounting etc. ?
Is there something else I should check? The card is definitely OK, formatted with fat32

Thanks

[Joe1962]

For that I think you also need the modules: tifm_7xx1, tifm_core, tifm_sd. I got it working like that on a previous laptop, but don't remember the exact combination of modules, as some load automatically as dependencies of another.

[apock627]

Thanks. I re-compiled including these modules

Code:

root:# lsmod | grep "sd\|tifm\|mmc"
mmc_block               6412  0
tifm_sd                 8848  0
tifm_7xx1               6400  0
tifm_core               6160  2 tifm_sd,tifm_7xx1
sdhci                  14744  0
mmc_core               20500  3 mmc_block,tifm_sd,sdhci

Still no device found at /dev/mmcblk0p1
Sounds like i definitely needed to do that but, any more ideas?
Thanks

[easuter]

Which version of VL 5.8 are you using, and is that card reader capable of reading multiple card types?

[apock627]

Using VL5.8 standard, kernel 2.6.21 and this reader is SD only.
Thanks

[easuter]

when you boot-up, leave the card in the reader, an then check to see if any scsi device nodes appear (sda, sdb, sdd, etc) in /dev after VL has booted.

If not then also check if your kernel has multiple LUNs scanning enabled.

[apock627]

My sata hard drive is already detected as sda.
Probe all LUNs was not enabled but have now re-compiled again including this.
Just for kicks have changed all these config options from modules to built-ins

There was one line in dmesg I don't remember from before

sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

but then
root:# mount -t vfat /dev/sg0 /mnt/sd
mount: /dev/sg0 is not a block device

Thanks again

[easuter]

You may find this config by Joe1962 a good base to build your own on, since the one for VL 5.8 Standard's 2.6.18.5 kernel had quite a few options left out, and that normally are also carried on into the next kernel you build.

Not to mention, Joe1962's config makes the kernel a little lighter on memory too

[apock627]

THanks. I did a make menuconfig importing that config to 2.6.21, and couldn't make myself a bootable kernel. Too many versions ago I guess. Oddly the kernel panic happened very late, after going multiuser, I guess when some module was being loaded. I haven't got time to analyse that at the moment, but I have been looking for a base config with Vector recommendations so that will still be useful. No progress on the SD reader though. Thanks anyway.