Ricoh card reader

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 07:50 -0400, Charles Farinella wrote:
> I just bought a new ThinkPad with Suse Linux pre-loaded and a 4 in 1
> card reader which isn't working. I'm looking for tips or guidance from
> anyone who knows anything about this. Apparently there are no Linux
> drivers for this hardware.

I have a ThinkPad T61 purchased right around the start of the year,
exact same card reader and FireWire controller (they're driven off the
same chipset), and everything works just fine w/2.6.24 and 2.6.25
kernels. :)

(Well, actually, I've not tried anything but FireWire devices and SD
cards, but they both work just fine).

If I recall correctly, the suse preload is SLED10, which has a 2.6.16
kernel, so quite dated. I'm assuming you're also stuck with an ipw3945
wireless controller, and don't have the option to upgrade, which is
because SLED10 doesn't support any of the other options in a T61. I went
with a non-linux-edition custom build myself, primarily so that I could
upgrade to the iwl4965 (802.11n) wireless controller.


> lspci output:
> 
> 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba)
> 15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller
> (rev 04)
> 15:00.2 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822
> SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21)
> 15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd Unknown device 0843 (rev 11)
> 15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host
> Adapter (rev 11)
> 15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev
> 11)



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Jarod Wilson
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