How to Recognize Card Reader in Ubuntu !!!

hello all... i have laptop (gateway m210) that has a built-in card reader. the problem is that ubuntu 7.10 doesn't recognize it. what do i do to get it to recognize it?

 

The most generic way of getting things like that to work is to run lsusb and/or lspci and identify what each item is. lspci should give fairly descriptive identifiers including a chipset usually, and lsusb will give an identifier like xxxx:xxxx and usually a short descriptor that may or may not help.

For instance a line in my lsusb is:

Bus 005 Device 005: ID 13d3:3206 IMC Networks

This is actually a digital TV tuner. Typing that ID number into google pretty quickly gets results as to what it actually is, and the driver that it should load.

Someone else might be more motivated to search google for you, but that should be enough of a tip to solve this and a lot of other hardware issues you'll ever encounter.

If the hardware IS working at all, you should get stuff popping up when you insert/remove when you type "dmesg | tail". fdisk -l should show the actual device regardless of if it auto mounts. If you can manually mount the card, you've probably got an issue with HAL, or you may not be a member of optical or storage.

 

http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/27137

taurusx77
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Why you you keep wasting people's time? I ended up feeling generous and looked a bit further for an answer and give a similar solution I used for another similar laptop, and your name pops up AGAIN posting the same question on multiple forums. Please stop, it is really, really frustrating knowing that someone else has answered the question somewhere else, and my time is just being wasted on you.

Be glad I didn't edit my previous post, as the information is still probably useful to someone else if they stumble upon it.

 

i did try 'fdisk -l' and got back nothing. i think it said that the id is not known. i will go back and try what you recommended as soon as i first recover my desktop. i cannot boot up into the ubuntu gui. im currently trying to get a fix for it. once i do fix it, ill try what you asked then tell you my results. ill let you know.