Sony VAIO built-in cardreader doesn't work

[Igor Zubarev]

In Dapper, Sony VAIO VGN-FS115MR built-in cardreader doesn't work.
When a MemoryStick Duo Pro card is inserted, nothing happens.

[Sitsofe Wheeler (sitsofe)]

Could you attach the output of the
lspci
command to this report?

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Here is my lspci output.

If it is important, I upgraded my laptop from Breezy to Dapper using 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.
All conf files are new versions supposed by package manager.
May be I should reconfigure my laptop? How could I do this?

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Dapper Beta but result the same.

[Trip (djturner)]

The card reader for the FS models of VAIO's, is different to most memory card readers. From what I've found out.. there is currently no support for this card reader through Linux. The only way to get support fot it would probably be though Sony themselve's.
http://ubuntufs.wordpress.com/about/
If anyone hear's differently, then please let me know.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Because of a cardreader I can't use my camera Sony DSC-T9 at all. I've already reported bug about this camera. It also doesn't work with Dapper.

So I have to start Windows to copy my photos either by USB cable or from Memory Stick.

[Matthew Lange (matthewlange)]

Igor,

Does your camera have a USB cable for connecting it, instead of taking the card out by hand? Most cameras have some kind of USB plug to let you plug it in that way.

[Matthew Lange (matthewlange)]

Confirmed, there is no support for this in Linux. Setting priority to Wontfix because this needs to be added to Linux before it can be supported by Ubuntu. Setting severity to Normal because most cameras have USB ports usable to manage a camera's picture files as an alternative.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Yes I tryed camera USB cable but without any result. Plus not supported cardreader...

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The Ubuntu Kernel Team is planning to move to the 2.6.27 kernel for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. As a result, the kernel team would appreciate it if you could please test this newer 2.6.27 Ubuntu kernel. There are one of two ways you should be able to test:

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[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Don't work for Intrepid.

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[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

The same issue with latest release 9.04 Jaunty. Doesn't work.

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

If you could also test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Thanks in advance.

[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

I tried latest upstream kernel 2.6.31-999 available by instructions in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds.
Cardreader doesn't work too.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Triaged a while ago but has not had any updated comments for quite some time. Please let us know if this issue remains in the current Ubuntu release, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . If the issue remains, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Igor Zubarev (igor.zubarev)]

Before I used Karmic. Now I use Lucid. The situation didn't change. Cardreader doesn't work in both editions.

[Ilya (ppp0-at)]

same thing on vaio fw31e

[anotaai (anotaai)]

Same thing on a Vaio VGN-TZ25AN with Lucid Lynx.

[Nicolas da Luz Duque (hot-boy)]

Same thing on Vaio PCG-4L2M with Ubuntu 11.04.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Igor Zubarev, this bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/ .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command in the development release from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux <replace-with-bug-number>

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Please do not test the kernel in the daily folder, but the one all the way at the bottom. Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. As well, please comment on which kernel version specifically you tested.

If this bug is fixed in the mainline kernel, please add the following tag 'kernel-fixed-upstream'.

If the mainline kernel does not fix this bug, please add the tag: 'kernel-bug-exists-upstream'.

If you are unable to test the mainline kernel, for example it will not boot, please add the tag: 'kernel-unable-to-test-upstream', and comment as to why specifically you were unable to test it.

Please let us know your results. Thanks in advance.

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