Card Reader Not Working - Toshiba Tecra A4

This might be one of those unsupported proprietary readers. Likely not much we
can do.

Get me as much information about the reader as possible and I'll see what I can
find out. Is it attached internally via USB or IDE? Full dmesg output should help.

This is an internal reader, I'll get you the dmesg output as soon as I'm near a
wireless point again. I don't think it's being recognized as I didn't see it on
lspci (or at least nothing looked like it matched the description).

It's not going to show up in lspci, as no card reader is a PCI device. They are
generally attached to some sort of storage bus, be it USB or IDE. So lspci would
show the bus, but not the actual reader (just like it doesn't show your mouse or
cdrom drive).

Many internal card readers are PCI parts - TI, Winbond, Ricoh and Toshiba all
have PCI versions. Only the Winbond ones are currently supported under Linux.

Ah, I didn't know that. In any case, I would guess that this one isn't, else it
would show up in lspci regardless if the kernel supports using it or not.

Have you been able to get a dmesg output yet?

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A handful of logs from the Tecra A4

This should be enough information to see what's going on, hopefully.

Looking at your kernel log I see a 512MB SanDisk USB storage device that is set
as /dev/sdb with one partition (/dev/sdb1).

Is this your card reader?

No, that's the USB jumpdrive I used to transfer the log files since there is no
driver for my wired NIC.

Mine doesn't work as well. It's a Canonical supplied Toshiba Tecra M2. It
doesn't seem to accept MMCs either even on windows. I've attached dmesg and
lspci for my unit

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dmesg of Tecra M2

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lscpi output for Tecra M2

Loooking at the lspci, it seems linux just doesn't support this card reader.

Looks like there's an interesting new development. Notice the last two entries in my lspci:

0000:06:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
0000:06:06.4 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621, PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller

It was saying "Unknown Texas Instruments Device" or something to that nature earlier on, I've never see the SD controller entry there before. I got this when plugging in an SD card.

This seems to suggest some work has been done.