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Martin Hope
Paintre artis
Asked: 2016-09-15 05:21:33 +0800 CST
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My Dell Vostro 1510 has an internal SD card reader that works well under Windows XP, but it is not recognised by Ubuntu. ls /dev/sd* only fetches lines related to the HDD, same for commands fd and fdisk. The following is the output of lspci:

08:05.2 SD Host controller: O2 Micro, Inc. Integrated MMC/SD Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Dell Integrated MMC/SD Controller
    Flags: bus master, slow devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
    Memory at f8202800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
    Kernel modules: sdhci_pci

Rebooting with a SD card inserted does not help. Dell does not supply any device driver for Linux. How can I fix this?

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Martin Hope
mikewilliamson
Asked: 2012-03-31 20:09:04 +0800 CST
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I have a series of machines that I am building for work that have usb card readers. When I boot them I get a long series of messages:

...
[ 2347.768419] hub 1-6:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 2347.968178] usb 1-6.6: new full-speed USB device number 10 using ehci_hcd
[ 2352.552020] usb 1-6.6: device not accepting address 10, error -32
[ 2352.568421] hub 1-6:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 6
[ 2352.768179] usb 1-6.6: new full-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
[ 2357.352033] usb 1-6.6: device not accepting address 12, error -32
...

On some older machines this only takes a few attempts before the card reader finally accepts an address, while on newer machines it can take many minutes. Changing hardware is not an option and plugging the usb card reader into a different port is only an option for the older manchines. This was a problem under 11.04 and I am now running the 12.04 beta and its still happening.

Is there something I can do in the software (a udev rule perhaps?) that would fix this?

Any advice appreciated. I'm happy to provide more details if you need them.

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Martin Hope
Nathan J.B.
Asked: 2010-11-20 10:53:47 +0800 CST
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I bought a pin-based-USB powered internal media card reader and it worked perfectly when I first installed Ubuntu 10.10 a month ago. I used it a few times since and today I booted up the computer and it's not working.

Here's how it used to work:

  • In nautilus->computer, 5 "drives" would display even when no card was inserted.
  • One for each slot (SD, XD, CF/MS, etc).
  • Opening one w/o a card would initiate a "Please insert card." dialog.
  • Inserting a card would automatically open nautilus.

Now:

  • No drives display at all whether cards are inserted or not.

  • lsusb lists the following (which seems to indicate that it's not being detected)

    Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 007 Device 002: ID 046d:c52e Logitech, Inc.   (my keyboard/mouse)
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)  
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub  
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

  • (Side note: all of my USB ports are 2.0 + 1 USB port which is 3.0, why does everything say 1.1/2.0?)

I tried using ubuntu-bug but for USB devices it expects you to be able to remove and insert them while the computer is running (obviously this is something you probably shouldn't be doing when you're dealing with devices plugged straight into the USB pins).

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