Need help with Fedora on Eee PC - MMC.SD Drivers

[GATA]

I just put Fedora on my Eee PC. Right now, the only thing that seems to not be working is the MCC.SD slot, witch i really need. I am fairly new to linux, so i may need more things for the Eee PC to make it run smoother. But however, right now i am only interested in getting those MCC.SD drivers.

If anyone can help me, please do.

Thanks
GATA

[Charles4809]

AFAIK this is a realtek cardreader, but lets make that sure.
Go into terminal and type:

lsusb

and post the outcome here.
From there we can work on it.

[GATA]

when i typed lsusb in the terminal, this is what came up

Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0951:1606 Kingston Technology
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[waterhead]

I have Fedora 10 installed on my Eee Pc 900, and there are no problems with the SD slot. In fact I have Fedora installed on a 8GB SD card.

This is the SD device:

Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0951:1606 Kingston Technology

I can't identify any specific driver needed to make this work. What version of Fedora are you using? Also, what kernel version do you have?

[GATA]

The file i downloaded is called "Fedora-10-i686-Live"

i dont know if thats what you are looking for though

im new remember

I downloaded it and installed it to my Eee PC 701 and so far everything works 100% except it doesent recognize an SD card if i put one in. is there something i have to do to open the files?

i just put it in and went to "computer" and nothing changed. thumb drives work fine.

and another little buggy thing is that is says my wireless internet is at a poor connection, yet the transfer speed is better than my dell. so what i am saying is that it says it is picking up crappy internet, but its super fast. But thats fine since this is the only distro of linux that has been able to use the wifi for my eee PC

also, like everyone else, my Fn>F2 wifi button doesn't work, but i find no need for this to work.

but like i said, im only interested in the MMC.SD driver since i need it for my job. thanks for all the replies and help

Thanks
GATA

[waterhead]

Maybe it just isn't automounting the card. Without a card in the slot, enter this command (as root).

fdisk -l

That is a lower case "L", to list the output. Now insert a SD card, and run the command again. Here is my output, with an 8GB SD card inserted.

[root@localhost paul]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 4034 MB, 4034838528 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 490 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         300     2409718+  83  Linux
/dev/sda2             301         488     1510110   83  Linux
/dev/sda3             489         489        8032+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda4             490         490        8032+  ef  EFI (FAT-12/16/32)

Disk /dev/sdb: 8017 MB, 8017412096 bytes
186 heads, 43 sectors/track, 1957 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7998 * 512 = 4094976 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000d996

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1        1957     7826021+  83  Linux

The /dev/sdb1 section is the SD card. If it is displaying the SD card in the output of fdisk, then you just need to manually mount it. Create a folder to mount it, usually in your home folder.

mkdir /home/GATA/mounted

Then mount it there.

mount /dev/sdb1 /home/GATA/mounted

This is not the most elegant solution, but it usually works.

[GATA]

when i type in "fdisk -l" the same stuff comes up weather i have the card in or out. nothing has changed at all. at first, i though that it couldnt read the card, so i tried a thumb drive card reader thing and it worked fine. but i would really like to get this working

but like i said, nothing changed, so i am thinking that there is a missing driver or something needed to make linux be able to read the card reader.

[waterhead]

Here is my output of the lsmod command. You can compare it with your output to see what is different.

[paul@localhost ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
nls_utf8                5632  0 
ext2                   58760  1 
vfat                   12672  1 
fat                    42784  1 vfat
fuse                   49436  2 
i915                   53508  2 
drm                   158260  3 i915
sco                    12932  2 
bridge                 43668  0 
stp                     6148  1 bridge
bnep                   14848  2 
l2cap                  21504  3 bnep
bluetooth              48608  5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc                156052  3 
ipv6                  230132  26 
p4_clockmod             8324  0 
dm_multipath           17164  0 
uinput                 10624  0 
pcspkr                  6272  0 
iTCO_wdt               13732  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     6916  1 iTCO_wdt
i2c_i801               12048  0 
i2c_core               21396  2 drm,i2c_i801
arc4                    5760  2 
ecb                     6528  2 
crypto_blkcipher       18052  1 ecb
ath5k                 112520  0 
mac80211              173668  1 ath5k
cfg80211               23816  2 ath5k,mac80211
atl2                   27544  0 
snd_hda_intel         352788  3 
video                  20244  0 
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
output                  6528  1 video
snd_seq_oss            30364  0 
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                65924  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
snd                    50616  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               9416  1 snd
eeepc_laptop           13204  0 
hwmon                   6300  1 eeepc_laptop
rfkill                 11288  2 eeepc_laptop
usb_storage            86408  1

You can get some info on a module with the modinfo <module> command.

[GATA]

a whole lot of stuff is different actually...

[Tyler@EEE-PC ~]$ /sbin/lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
fuse                   49436  2 
i915                   53380  2 
drm                   158260  3 i915
sco                    12932  2 
bridge                 43668  0 
stp                     6148  1 bridge
bnep                   14848  2 
l2cap                  21504  3 bnep
bluetooth              48608  5 sco,bnep,l2cap
sunrpc                155924  3 
ip6t_REJECT             7296  2 
nf_conntrack_ipv6      15864  2 
ip6table_filter         6400  1 
ip6_tables             14736  1 ip6table_filter
ipv6                  230132  18 ip6t_REJECT,nf_conntrack_ipv6
dm_multipath           17164  0 
uinput                 10624  0 
pcspkr                  6272  0 
joydev                 12736  0 
i2c_i801               12048  0 
i2c_core               21396  2 drm,i2c_i801
iTCO_wdt               13732  0 
iTCO_vendor_support     6916  1 iTCO_wdt
usb_storage            82440  0 
arc4                    5760  2 
ecb                     6528  2 
crypto_blkcipher       18052  1 ecb
snd_hda_intel         351124  3 
snd_seq_dummy           6660  0 
snd_seq_oss            30364  0 
ath5k                 112520  0 
mac80211              173668  1 ath5k
snd_seq_midi_event      9600  1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq                48576  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
cfg80211               23816  2 ath5k,mac80211
snd_seq_device         10124  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
atl2                   27544  0 
snd_pcm_oss            42496  0 
snd_mixer_oss          16896  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm                65924  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer              22024  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc         11016  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
snd_hwdep              10500  1 snd_hda_intel
snd                    50616  16 snd_hda_intel,snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_hwdep
soundcore               9416  1 snd
video                  20244  0 
output                  6528  1 video
eeepc_laptop           13204  0 
hwmon                   6300  1 eeepc_laptop
rfkill                 11288  2 eeepc_laptop
ata_generic             8452  0 
pata_acpi               7680  0

wait, are you using that eeedora distro? i heard all about that, but now the project is terminated and you cant dl it anymore. i am running the regular dora

but as you can see, i dont have a lot of those options that you have up there. anyways, there it is

and are you running eeedora?

[waterhead]

Maybe the 701 and the 900 are too different to compare side by side.

I installed Fedora 10 using the DVD version. I did update the BIOS using the original Xandros OS. I don't know if this made any difference. It seems that the SD slot should be active through the BIOS, otherwise I wouldn't be able to boot from it.