Ricoh card reader

2008-04-17 Thread Charles Farinella
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.

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)

thanks,

--charlie

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Re: Ricoh card reader

2008-04-17 Thread Michael ODonnell


Did you STFW?

The first handful of hits here looked very promising:

   http://www.google.com/search?q=RL5c476+linux

Particularly this one:

   http://hardware4linux.info/component/16545/
 
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Re: Ricoh card reader

2008-04-17 Thread Charlie Farinella
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Michael ODonnell wrote:
 
 Did you STFW?

I did.  Apparently not thoroughly enough.  Thank you.  :-)
 
 The first handful of hits here looked very promising:
 
http://www.google.com/search?q=RL5c476+linux
 
 Particularly this one:
 
http://hardware4linux.info/component/16545/
  
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Re: Ricoh card reader

2008-04-17 Thread 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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