Acer Aspire one netbook SD not reconized using PCLinuxOS LXDE

[aplumlee]

SD Card does not respond...cannot see it anywhere in the directory..Any Help !!? Thanks in advance !!

[rubentje1991]

So, it's not visible in your /media folder?

If you go to PCLinuxOS Control Center => Manage Local Disks (formatting disk drives, ...), is there a tab visible with your SD-card?
(probably there is a Konsole command - but I've forgotten it again  )

[scoundrel]

to get it to work .. go to-- Configure your LXDesktop ..System---file manager superuser mode---click on your root partition--then go to --- /etc and follow the instructions below ..

SD Card Readers:
For the Right-hand-side card reader to work, make sure in the BIOS you have the option D2D Recovery "Enabled"
Work fine after the following mods:

Create a file named aspire-fix-sd-slots in /etc/modprobe.d/
Add to it the following lines:

options pciehp pciehp_force=1
options sdhci debug_quirks=1

In /etc/mdprobe.preload add the following line if it's not there already.to an exsisting file

pciehp

To solve the boot up problem when you have the right SD card inserted during boot add the following two lines to the file /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

blacklisted memstick
blacklisted jmb38x_ms

reboot...

[denoobifyme]

Thanks Scoundrel.

For those who aren't yet comfortable with modifying files, you can leave the SD card out until after boot or use it in a USB card reader. I remember with PCLOS 09, this was necessary because udev would freeze if the SD card was in at boot. I haven't even tried my SD with 2010, but it looks like it might still be a problem.

[ff103]

I just tried a SD card in my wife's Acer Aspire One netbook and it worked fine. This netbook is running 2010.1 KDE fully updated.

[scoundrel]

I just tried a SD card in my wife's Acer Aspire One netbook and it worked fine. This netbook is running 2010.1 KDE fully updated.

not on mine ... which model does she have ??  mine is the AAO ZG5

[ff103]

I posted this thread a few days ago, http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php/topic,74894.0.html
the tag underneath says Aspire one D250-1026, hope this helps. I will copy and post a config file if you tell me which one you want to look at.

[scoundrel]

strange.. mine is from 09 and will not do so ..must be something new that pclos doesn't pick up.... otherwise all flavors of pclos runs ape on it ..

[aplumlee]

Thanks for all the help so far...followed all the steps and still does not work
FYI...The Model on this netbook is NAV50
Thanks for all your help

[jlr1001]

Hey all... just wanted to confirm that "modprobe pciehp" doesn't seem to enable the sd readers any more.

This worked fine in PCLOS 2009, but no go in 2010...




-JLR

[joeham]

I have a friend with new Aspire One AO532h that has an SD card controller made by ENE in Taiwan.  It does not seem to have a common linux driver.

I researched it for him and found this link:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/530277

It seems it reports there is a driver from the Moblin project that might work.

You might do lspci and search on the SD card controller chip part number.  If it is made by ENE you might be able to scrounge up some source code from one of the sources alluded to in the link above.

ENE seems to think it should keep the technical data about their controllers on a need to know basis, since there is no engineering data on their web site, just marketing descriptions.

I hope you are successful in your driver quest.