HOWTO: Enable your SD card reader
LinuxOne of the quirks I encountered while running Kubuntu, was that my SD card reader in my Compaq NC6230 laptop didn't work. In doing some digging I found that many card readers are USB, some are PCI, and some are somehow integrated with the CDROM device.
The one for this machine is PCI...so, the first step to getting your card reader to work is to find out what the "address" is (pardon my lack of terminology).
Go to your terminal and type lspci
This will list all of the possible devices to choose from. Look for something that has to do with card readers.
The one you want (if you are using the NC6230) is:
02:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
Now, turn it on.
I created a launcher in my kmenu called "Enable SD" and all it does is run this line of code in a terminal.
sudo setpci -s 02:06.3 4c.b=0x02
Voila! SD card readination.
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