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Zodiac

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Registered: 2011-11-01

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rts5139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 Card Reader

Have anyone get this device working?
There is the staging driver aviable in patch for ubuntu kernel and as separate driver code from someone from Realtek. Guys on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/824273 reported that it works. But I only have messages that driver is registered and card reader still do nothing when I plug in SD card. If I plug in card at boot time I'll get waiting for udev uevents to be processed [fail] (module rts5139 is in modules() array). Booting without card goes fine,except card reader not works)). Are there any UDev log-files to check? In addition I can say that device nodes are created fine for each slot in reader even without driver, but after attaching cards no partitions are visible and reported in messages.log neither without driver nor with.
P.S. Sorry for bad english)

Last edited by Zodiac (2011-11-01 12:42:15)

silvik

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From: Bucharest/Romania

Registered: 2006-11-08

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Re: rts5139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 Card Reader

I'm also interested in this.
ambientzoo says the driver works on arch: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 37#p969437. in ubuntu this driver is included and the card reader works out of the box.
you have to compile it, then load the module. source here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/153B/

I hope someone will write a PKGBUILD for this module.

mxchael

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Registered: 2011-09-15

Posts: 5

Re: rts5139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 Card Reader

Faced the same problem with my Asus X53/K53 laptop. But it seems the drivers will be implemented in the Linux 3.2 kernel, so it will soon be solved.

nkorth

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Registered: 2012-01-07

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Re: rts5139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 Card Reader

you have to compile it, then load the module. source here: http://ubuntuone.com/p/153B/

Thanks for the driver link. I followed the readme and got strange errors when compiling it:

$ sudo make
sed "s/RTSX_MK_TIME/`date +%y.%m.%d.%H.%M`/" timestamp.in > timestamp.h
cp -f define.release define.h
make -C /lib/modules/3.1.7-1-ARCH/build/ SUBDIRS= modules
make: *** /lib/modules/3.1.7-1-ARCH/build/: No such file or directory.  Stop.
make: *** [default] Error 2

It's probably some simple issue, I'm somewhat new to manually compiling stuff on Linux. Can anyone help?

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: rts5139 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 Card Reader

No need for any third party modules, linux-3.2 contains the driver.

Edit: But if you want to compile for an earlier kernel, install linux-headers.

Last edited by Gusar (2012-01-07 15:28:48)