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Memory Stick with internal card reader on HP nx9420

Asked by Peter Magnusson

I have a HP nx9420 and it has a built in card reader for SD, MS, MS-Pro, MMC, SM and XD.
I have only got access to MS cards at the moment but it doesn't work that well.
The information I get from syslog / dmesg is the following when inserting and removing the card.
It doesn't matter for how log I have the card inserted, nothing happens anyway.

[17192911.376000] tifm_7xx1: ms card detected in socket 0
[17192916.792000] tifm_7xx1: demand removing card from socket 0

Using a external reader (witch I have) is a workaround but it doesn't solve the problem with the internal one.

I use a clean install 6.10 and dual-boots with windows XP and in windows it works fine.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

tifm_7xx1 is the driver for your built in memory card reader.

It looks like there are a few bugs related to this device.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.17/+bugs?field.searchtext=tifm_7xx1&orderby=-importance&search=Search&field.status%3Alist=Unconfirmed&field.status%3Alist=Confirmed&field.status%3Alist=In+Progress&field.status%3Alist=Needs+Info&field.status%3Alist=Fix+Committed&field.assignee=&field.owner=&field.omit_dupes=on&field.has_patch=&field.has_no_package=

You might want to take a look at those bugs and try out the solutions provided.

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Best Peter Magnusson (kmpm) said : 		#2

Ok.. there is a problem with this. I'll just have to wait for a fix. It looks like there might not be any support for MemoryStick at all.