From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported?
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 10:58:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45E7F55F.6090807@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45E7F13E.60408@drzeus.cx>
Pierre Ossman napsal(a):
> Werner LEMBERG wrote:
>> Folks,
>>
>>
>> my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop has both a Ricoh R5C822 host adapter (for
>> SD, MMC, etc.) and a Ricoh R5C592 host adapter for memory sticks.
>>
>> While the former works just fine, it seems to me that the latter
>> hasn't any support. Indeed, inserting a Sony MSA-128A memory stick
>> causes no reaction whatsoever. Searching with google, I haven't found
>> anything related to this chip; looking into the kernel source code
>> wasn't successful either.
>>
>> Can you please shed some light on the current situation? I'm using
>> kernel 2.6.20.
>>
>
> Memory stick is completely unsupported. We haven't got any specs for neither the
> the host controllers or the protocol. So I would guess it would be quite some
> time before memorystick is supported directly by Linux.
There is an experimental out-of-the-tree ricoh driver. I don't know if your
reader is supported, you can give it a try and report back. Make sure, you have
backed your data up.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=117123096427193&w=2
regards,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-02 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-02 9:23 Memory stick reader Ricoh R5C592 supported? Werner LEMBERG
2007-03-02 9:41 ` Pierre Ossman
2007-03-02 9:58 ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2007-03-02 12:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-03-02 12:21 ` Alan
2007-03-02 12:15 ` Matthew Garrett
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