Driver for laptop cardreader

Tuesday, March 20. 2007

Driver for laptop cardreader

My laptop (Samsung P35) has an internal card reader (SD and MemoryStick) done by Ricoh. Several other laptops have this device. It's internally connected as a pcmcia-device and shows up as RICOH Bay1Controller on pccardctl ident.

For years now there was no way to get this thing running in linux, which stopped me from doing projects like having a crypto-key on a small SD-Card and insert that on boot. Now, finally someone did the job and reverse engineered the device: sdricohcs

In my first small tests, I could already download some photos from my digital camera card. No problems so far. Now, the only thing I'm really missing with linux on my laptop left is TV-Out (works with ati binary drivers, but they are unstable like hell). I heared some Xorg-devs are already working on it, so maybe I'll soon announce the »nearby 100%« support for Linux on Samsung P30/P35.

Posted by Hanno Böck in English, Gentoo, Linux at 14:19 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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Yay! It worked on my Asus Z71V! At least for SD cards, Memory Stick was a no-go.

Anyway, if only they could fix udev/kernel [1] for the device to show a parent device, so hal/KDE would automagically find and mount when inserted...

Thanks for pointing this out, the card reader was the last piece of hardware not working on my laptop.

[1] http://www.nabble.com/SD-card-automounting-t2870318.html#a8245266

#1 Gustavo Michels on 2007-03-20 17:45 (Reply)

Hello
Laptop problem (Samsung P35)
I`m looking fors some drivers :
My sound card and graphics ATI Mobility 9700 not working .
I couldn`t instal drivers from samsung.com , after instaling there is a box : invaild operating system check with the admin or conntac with producent support .
I have WIN XP SP1 upgrade to SP2.
If You could send me on e-mail your drivers it would be nice.
ThX
Rico

#2 Rico on 2007-06-02 14:43 (Reply)

thanks. I search a ricoh-bay1controller. but I finded perhaps in your site. I m very thanks you.

#2.1 ugur on 2007-11-16 09:30 (Reply)

Hi,

regarding tv-out, there was a merge to the radeon OSS driver. It now supports tv-out and randr-1.2.

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/driver/xf86-video-ati.git;a=shortlog

Best regards,
Stephan

#3 Stephan on 2007-08-25 12:24 (Reply)

i don t hear any sound from my notebook samsung sens p 30 and i don t know what s happened,because two days ago i didn t have this problem.if u can help me please do it.thank you!

#4 lory (Homepage) on 2008-08-19 21:49 (Reply)

My laptop' SAMSUNG p30. I can't read the card rreader,although it supported to read. pls, heip me to do it.

#5 minhphamquang2002 on 2008-12-11 15:02 (Reply)

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Driver for laptop cardreader

Tuesday, March 20. 2007

Driver for laptop cardreader

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