From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261381AbVG1LIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:08:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261406AbVG1LIW (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:08:22 -0400 Received: from webmail1.sd.dreamhost.com ([66.33.201.159]:21227 "EHLO webmail1.sd.dreamhost.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261381AbVG1LIQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Jul 2005 07:08:16 -0400 Message-ID: <20147.195.77.63.25.1122548894.squirrel@webmail.criptos.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:08:14 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Drivers for Ricoh SD Card Reader From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Tom=E0s_N=FA=F1ez_Lirola?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi I have a Thinpad X40 notebook, with a Ricoh SD Card Reader. This card reader has not a Linux driver, so I can't use it. Googling I've deduced nobody can, as everybody notes the same problem with the device. The device is not new, as my notebook is one year old. So it's strange we still don't have a linux driver. I'd like to do something about it, and I've asked Ricoh and IBM for some specs of the device, to try to build the driver. But they only answer "There is no linux driver, and is not planned to release it." Obviously, this answer is useless, but I don't know what to do now... Do you know if Ricoh has released specs before? Do you think IBM should have them? What would you do in my place? Which should be the next step? Thanks PD: Please CC me as I'm not subscribed yet to kernel list. Thanks again. PD2: In case you are curious about the device, here is 'lspci -v' 0000:02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0555 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 16 Memory at b0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176 Memory window 0: 20400000-207ff000 (prefetchable) Memory window 1: 20800000-20bff000 I/O window 0: 00004000-000040ff I/O window 1: 00004400-000044ff 16-bit legacy interface ports at 03e1 0000:02:00.1 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd: Unknown device 0822 (rev 13) Subsystem: IBM: Unknown device 0556 Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17 [virtual] Memory at d0221000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled] [size=256] Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2