missing driver for Ricoh sd-card reader (sdricoh_cs.ko) in Ubuntu 7.10

[panticz.de]

Binary package hint: linux-image-2.6.22-14-generic

Hello,

i have a Asus Z71A notebook with a Ricoh R/RL/5C476(II) sd-card reader. Unfortunately Ubuntu 7.10 doesnt provide kernel driver for this card reader. The driver can by found on http://sdricohcs.sourceforge.net (sdricoh_cs.ko). I tested then on my notebook and its work fine. This card reader seams to by used on many other notebooks like Samsung P35, Dell X300 and Asus M6N so it will by great if you can add then to the distribution.

Best Regards

Pawel Konczalski

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Do you know if there have been any efforts to get this submitted and accepted into the mainline kernel? It is a lot of extra work for the Ubuntu kernel team to maintain out of tree patches. As such they require evidence of upstream submission before considering to maintain community patches locally.

I've gone ahead and opened a new task against the actively developed kernel. However, I'm closing the report against linux-source-2.6.22 as it does not meet the criteria for a stable release update. You can learn more about the stable release update process at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates .

Thanks!

[TomasHnyk (sup)]

There has been a thread on LKML about a year ago: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/6/166

The most recent opinion of the developer can be found here: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=200710110011.08636.ml%40hboeck.de&forum_name=sdricohcs-devel

Moreover, this bug is a duplicate of this one: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/36964

It would also help me (and number a lot of other people, see above bug), since I have the same hardware.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

panticz.de, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better. Gutsy reached EOL on April 18th, 2009.
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We were wondering if this is still an issue in a supported release? If so, could you please test for this with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ .

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[jevgtv (tugevus)]

AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24.
AplayDevices:
 **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices:
 **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****
 card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: AD198x Analog [AD198x Analog]
   Subdevices: 1/1
   Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: jevgtv 18495 F.... pulseaudio
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xe4624000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1981'
   Components : 'HDA:11d41981,103c30be,00100200'
   Controls : 11
   Simple ctrls : 9
DistroRelease: LinuxMint 13
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=de21d542-f8c9-4958-b551-7b7a34c824af
InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 13 "Maya" - Release i386 (20120520)
MachineType: Hewlett-Packard HP Compaq 6910p
MarkForUpload: True
Package: linux (not installed)
ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-48-generic root=UUID=173fe8a4-8553-4932-bbf7-41f48f0cb97c ro profile
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.74-generic 3.2.46
RelatedPackageVersions:
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Tags: maya
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not an official LinuxMint package. Please remove any third party package and try again.
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo
dmi.bios.date: 07/06/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.bios.version: 68MCU Ver. F.19
dmi.board.name: 30BE
dmi.board.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.board.version: KBC Version 68.36
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: HUB80119YM
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: Hewlett-Packard
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnHewlett-Packard:bvr68MCUVer.F.19:bd07/06/2010:svnHewlett-Packard:pnHPCompaq6910p:pvrF.19:rvnHewlett-Packard:rn30BE:rvrKBCVersion68.36:cvnHewlett-Packard:ct10:cvr:
dmi.product.name: HP Compaq 6910p
dmi.product.version: F.19
dmi.sys.vendor: Hewlett-Packard

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