Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 Dec 2004 12:27:21 -0500 | From | Bill Davidsen <> | Subject | Re: internal card reader support |
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Felix Dorner wrote: > Hi, > > > My notebook (hp nx9105) has an integrated 5in1 card-reader. I would > really like to use this with linux. > Since I do not think it is supported yet, I d like to know if it might > be possible to write a module or so for this. > I am just an average C programmer, but always wanted to dive into kernel > developement. My knowledge on computer architecture is also no more than > basic, so this might be something to really learn a lot... > So I start at zero knowledge now. First of course I need to find out if > what I want to do is possible at all. > This means now to identify the hardware inside and see if I can get > documents for that. > > First I just start with: > > #lspci > [...] > 0000:02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev > 01) > 0000:02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments: Unknown device ac54 (rev > 01) > 0000:02:04.2 System peripheral: Texas Instruments: Unknown device 8201 > (rev 01) > [...] > > This is all that I have. Now I am already confused. My box has one > PCMCIA slot. Which is now the PCMCIA and which is the CardReader? What > about the third device? Might this be the integrated infrared controller? > > Can you give me any hints/tips where to start best, what to read first? > > I know this seems to be very difficult, but I have quite some free time > that I don't want to spend playing bzflag all night long, so I think > this is a great way to learn something.
The first question is if this shows up as USB (therefore SCSI), or IDE. I had an old desktop with PCMCIA and it all used the IDE driver. I'm interested, I'd love to use the slot on my Acer!
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