Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader

Hello everybody!

I have some difficulties to get my SD card reader to work and was hoping to find an answer in here.
The laptop is a Satellite Pro P100-PSPA4E and installed SUSE 10.3 on it. The BIOS version is 3.8.

lspci:
0a:04.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:04.3 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

According to dmesg, the system is at least already recognizing that a card was inserted.

dmesg:
tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1

But how to I get it to mount and access the card now?
Can anybody help me?

Regards,

Ralph

P.S.: By the way, the rest of this laptop is working pretty much out of the box. Oc course, Nvidia drivers were necessary to get the 3D acceleration and the DSDT had to be fixed to leave acpi on AND have sound at the same time.

I recognise this one!

Did you get it fixed?

If not, I'll post the fix this evening. I don't have it to hand right now.

I recognise this one!

Did you get it fixed?

If not, I'll post the fix this evening. I don't have it to hand right now.
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No, I wasn't able to find a fix for this problem yet. I tried the solution on this website:
ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2007/04/texas-instruments-sdmmc-card-reader.html

It is for Ubuntu and suggests using the following kernel modules:
tifm_sd
tifm_7xx1
tifm_core
Either this is not the correct solution for my problem or I wasn't able to transpose these instructions correctly for SUSE.

Hopefully your solution might be able to help me. I am very much looking forward to trying it out. Thanks in advance!

Here's lspci for my machine (ACER 9420). It *does* look like the same device, doesn't it?

0a:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 Cardbus Controller
0a:06.2 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments 5-in-1 Multimedia Card Reader (SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD)
0a:06.3 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Texas Instruments PCIxx12 SDA Standard Compliant SD Host Controller

(My card reader works)

I've never loaded any alternative drivers.

Back when I was using 10.2, I seem to remember needing:

setpci -s 0a:06.2 4c.b=0x02


... which I believe tells suse that the device is a mass storage device [I'm not any kind of expert]

I got the info from here:
http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?showto...w=&st=&

*However*
I upgraded my system to 10.3, and I can't find any evidence that the setpci command is still in place.

I hope this is of some use.

Good luck!