On Friday, 9 June 2023 13:48:56 BST John Blinka wrote:
> Hi, everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to get an SD card reader to work in Gentoo, but no success
> so far. Hoping that someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
> 
> The hardware is an old Dell Inspiron 5759 laptop featuring a RealTek
> RTS5129 usb sd card reader. The kernel is gentoo-sources-6.1.31. The
> sd card should contain a FAT file system with mp3 files, was written
> by an older MacBook, and has been observed to supply sounds to an
> Arduino/mp3 player setup.
> 
> I have followed the setup directions in
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PCSC-Lite using the ccid driver. I've
> enabled hotplug in openrc per the instructions on that page.
> 
> I'm using a kernel with CONFIG_MISC_RTSX=m and CONFIG_MISC_RTSX_USB=m.
> I have rc_hotplug="pcscd" in /etc/rc.conf and have confirmed that
> module rtsx_usb is actually loaded. I've emerged pcsc-lite using the
> default use flags of policykit, udev, and
> python_single_target_python3_11.
> 
> When I put the sd card into its slot (or take it out), dmesg doesn't
> report anything,  There isn't any device reported under /dev that
> looks to my untrained eye like something that might belong to this
> card reader. lsusb does report the presence of an RTS5129 card reader
> controller.
> 
> I'm over my head debugging this. Haven't found much via Google and
> nothing very recent. If anyone has ideas about what to try or how to
> debug, I'd be very happy to try any and all suggestions.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John Blinka

Have you also enabled CONFIG_MMC_REALTEK_USB in your kernel?

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