SD/MMC card reader worked in Dapper, but not Edgy

[Dan Gilliam]

Laptop is Toshiba Satellite M55-S3314. Card reader is Texas Instruments PCIxx21 chipset 5-in-1. This worked fine in Breezy and Dapper. Doesn't work in Edgy.

Inserting an SD or MMC card yields nothing in terms of automounting, or being able to find the card in /media, etc.

After insertion/removal several times for the card, dmesg |tail indicates:

 [17187508.540000] sdb: sdb1
[17187508.544000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
[17187508.544000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[17187515.724000] FAT: utf8 is not a recommended IO charset for FAT filesystems, filesystem will be case sensitive!
[17187600.480000] usb 5-3: USB disconnect, address 3
[17187608.972000] tifm_7xx1: sd card detected in socket 3
[17187617.932000] tifm_7xx1: demand removing card from socket 3
[17187619.104000] tifm_7xx1: sd card detected in socket 3
[17187622.316000] tifm_7xx1: demand removing card from socket 3
[17188314.128000] tifm_7xx1: sd card detected in socket 3

[FredStrauss (fred-ubuntu)]

The same on my HP nx8220. It worked fine in Dapper, but doesn't in Edgy.
I get the same log entry:
[17193396.436000] tifm_7xx1: sd card detected in socket 3
and nothing further.

[FredStrauss (fred-ubuntu)]

Found the fix, just do
sudo modprobe tifm_sd
and insert the card again

[Dan Gilliam (geocritter)]

FredStrauss wrote:
> Found the fix, just do
> sudo modprobe tifm_sd
> and insert the card again
>
>
Is this an actual fix that just needs to be put into a script, or is
this simply a workaround?

[FredStrauss (fred-ubuntu)]

Hi

To make it persistent over reboots, add
tifm_sd
to /etc/modules

Whether this is an actual fix the way the ubuntu developers will do it, I'm not sure. I suspect the proper way to do it is to load the module only when it's needed, but I needed a quick fix :)

Fred

[Dan Gilliam (geocritter)]

Thanks for the info. At the moment, I'm holding off on using Edgy
because of the "emergency hard drive parking" issue (which happened in
Dapper, too). They say hd's are only rated for so many of those. But
if they get that working, I'll try your SD card fix and give it a run.

Dan

FredStrauss wrote:
> Hi
>
> To make it persistent over reboots, add
> tifm_sd
> to /etc/modules
>
> Whether this is an actual fix the way the ubuntu developers will do it,
> I'm not sure. I suspect the proper way to do it is to load the module
> only when it's needed, but I needed a quick fix :)
>
> Fred
>
>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

The 18 month support period for Edgy Eft 6.10 has reached its end of life. As a result, we are closing the linux-source-2.6.17 Edgy Eft kernel task. However, development has already began for the upcoming Intrepid Ibex 8.10 release. It would be helpful if you could test the upcoming release and verify if this is still an issue - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing . If the issue still exists, please update this report by changing the Status of the "linux" task from "Incomplete" to "New". We appreciate your patience and understanding as we make this transition. Thanks!