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Bola

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From: Italia

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 118

Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

Hi, i have 2 problems:

1- i can't use my card reader (texas instruments 5-in-1 card reader). This is my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 04)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 04)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X700 (PCIE)
06:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
06:01.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
06:01.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
06:03.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)
06:08.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5788 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 03)

2- How can i connect my ipaq hp rx3700 to my arch box?

Bola

Member

From: Italia

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 118

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

None have an answer for my questions?

Bola

Member

From: Italia

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 118

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

None have an answer for my questions?

mmm It seems like to speak to the wind...

gueuze

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Registered: 2007-05-27

Posts: 6

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

Hello Bola,

For your first question, following the outpup from lspci I suppose you were using the tifm module set but since kernel 2.6.20 it doesn't work properly, in fact the driver have been downgraded to version 0.7 and this version is quite buggy.
You could try to install the 0.8 from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx, on my side I tried but could not do the make or make install. Do not know why yet, soon the kernel 2.6.22 will be out and we should not have to make the module (I hope).

If you succeed the install please tell me how you did it.

For you second question I don't have such device.

Hope this will work for you.

Bola

Member

From: Italia

Registered: 2007-02-16

Posts: 118

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

Hello Bola,

For your first question, following the outpup from lspci I suppose you were using the tifm module set but since kernel 2.6.20 it doesn't work properly, in fact the driver have been downgraded to version 0.7 and this version is quite buggy.
You could try to install the 0.8 from http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx, on my side I tried but could not do the make or make install. Do not know why yet, soon the kernel 2.6.22 will be out and we should not have to make the module (I hope).

If you succeed the install please tell me how you did it.

For you second question I don't have such device.

Hope this will work for you.

It seems there are a lot of improvement for tifm module in kernel 2.6.22

gueuze

Member

Registered: 2007-05-27

Posts: 6

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

Bola, this evening i tried a second time to make my module tifm and it works the errors  I got last time did not appear and the module load properly. I tested it with my 1 Go SD card and nothing special everything works.

enderandrew

Member

Registered: 2007-11-12

Posts: 11

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

I appear to have the same 5-in-1 card reader in my wife's HP laptop.  We're attempting to read a Memory Stick Duo (since that is what our new digital camera uses).  It worked out of the box sadly on Kubuntu.

I tried a modprobe tifm_core and tifm_7xx1 but it isn't even lighting up when I stick the memory card in.

Any suggestions?

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

I am having the same problem with my TI 5-in-1 reader too.  This one is in a Gateway NX860XL laptop.  It is even automatically probed at boot ...

[max@pwn ~]$ sudo lsmod | grep tifm_core
tifm_core               9352  1 tifm_7xx1

Last edited by synthead (2008-03-24 05:39:41)

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Synce & Texas Instruments card reader

Fixed on the latest update

XFCE even shows the card with a CF card icon, awesome.