Comment 50 for bug 1250605

I don't kow exectly why, but I've been abe to resolve ( see now SD cards and can read/write them!) on my ASUS X551CA with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and kernel 3.8.0-34-generic 64bit.

Please remember that for 12.04 the issue was resolved, but for kernels following 3.2 the fix was not working anymore .Today I made a silly attempt: I went to Realtek site and downloaded the "most recent" driver, that is for 5229 card (my lspc lists a 5286 instead). To do that, I:

1) Downloaded the driver from Realtek site (link: http://www.realtek.com.tw/Downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=15&PFid=25&Level=4&Conn=3&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false)

2) attempt to Compile the driver via command make

3) You get a set of errors that you can correct by editing file rtsx.c, along the line of the first comment in this bug, i.e. removing any reference to deprecated function "__devinit". Ignore warning messages, they're OK

4) do a sudo make install

5) issue a command depmod that will do nothing :-)

6) Reboot your PC, and when you insert an SD card it will see it !!!

I followed the instructions for make and install of this web page: http://pclinuxoshelp.com/index.php/Compiling_drivers_for_Realtek_card_reader