> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 10:53:01AM -0800, mpb wrote: >> I installed Debian EEE. Everything worked except the card reader. >> >> When I tried to manually mount /dev/sdb1 to /mnt/sdcard, the mount >> command would block for several minutes. Eventually, the mount would >> exit (claiming success), but /mnt/sdcard would be unreadable (I forget >> whether reading from it would result in blocking or immediate error >> messages).
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote: > This problem is known and there is a workaround. I just recently added > this to the wiki, but since > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/Troubleshooting only has > cross-references to non-hardware bugs, I put it here: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/HowTo/InstallOnSDcardOrUsbStick#head-7975900ebf36a00a3a47313f3dd8ca487570fd16 > > Basically you have to change the NVRAM setting in the BIOS which remembers if > the > user went through the initialisation of the EeePC's original OS. > Otherwise you get very strange timeouts with the SD card reader > independently when mounted. The same SD cards work fine in USB card > readers on the same machine. Thanks! I did have the [ BIOS / Advanced / OS Installation ] option set to "Start" instead of to "Finished". I have found this page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-eeepc-kernel/+bug/301932 It describes the exact same problem I experienced. It seems to happen with kernels greater than 2.6.24. I am currently running 2.6.24 (which works) and it was Debian with 2.6.25 which gave me problems. So I will assume this is the cause of the problem and try to test it at some point in the future. Just FYI - there was also something on that page about problems with old versions of the EEE BIOS. My 701 may have an old version of the BIOS. The version I have is: ASUS 701 ACPI Bios Revision 0401 Core Version: 0401 Build Date: 10/17/07 EC Firmware Version: 701_065 and v02.58 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. Thanks for all your help! -mpb _______________________________________________ Debian-eeepc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-eeepc-devel
