card reader not working, t61p, opensuse 10.3 64bit

[thomas565]

On my t61p the built-in sd/xd/ms/mmc card reader is not working under opensuse 10.3 64 bit (dvd retail version, clean install). The Ricoh device shows up under the Yast Hardware Information, but I never saw the LED lighting up and it does not show up in konquerer as drive,, testing it with my 512MB xd card.

Is the reader internally connected as a USB device?

Ideally, I would like to have the card reader working during installation, so that I could (with a larger card) put linux on it.

Is my reader compatible with SDHC (>=4GB) or does it only take SD (<4GB)?

For configuring it as a drive, any recommendation which of the fast ones (20MB/s 133X) to get: Lexar or Sandisk?

Thanks for hints or pointers.

T

[dongery]

I have a transcend 8GB SDHC card and when i put it in my x61 (fedora 8) it pops up a window asking me if i want to import photos.. its from my camera so i guess its why it does that. You'll need to find out if your reader is compatible with sdhc because to my understanding the cards arent backwards compatible. you need an SDHC capable reader to read SDHC cards

anyways it automounts as /media/disk

have you tried doing an fdisk -l to see if anything shows up?
mine looks like this:

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Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 8068 MB, 8068268032 bytes
233 heads, 20 sectors/track, 3381 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 4660 * 512 = 2385920 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

        Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/mmcblk0p1               2        3382     7875072    b  W95 FAT32