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hello. good Friday...
I have a problem in memory card slot..
when I insert a memory card in my laptop, puppy lnx slacko 6.3 cant read it?? why is it? is it because the driver doesn't load or anything else? thx

What Laptop - make, model, details of extras and memory??
What memory card; details ??

is this a microsd in a sdcard adapter?

what kind of cardreader do you have?
does the card snap into place when you insert it and an icon appear on the desktop, or do you just slide it in and out (maybe overlapping to pull it out again?)

in the latter case you can try to insert card and then start pmount.

Could be something wrong with your laptop card slot mechanism. My old HP laptop also does this sometimes. Try to insert the card and lift the edge slightly before releasing. Also - with some puppys the drive icon actually don't appear immediately but only after a few seconds.

Hmmm, I would first run GParted. Sometimes an unformatted card won't show up. I do presume it to be at least FAT32... but if it does show as unformatted, it may be borked.

Regards
8Geee

Hmmm,

Was that card and card reader working in any other OS, like Windows?

I never had any laptop.

How are card readers connected in laptops?
pci or usb?

Command "lspci" in terminal should give info about the card reader.

drunkjedi wrote:Hmmm,

Was that card and card reader working in any other OS, like Windows?

I never had any laptop.

How are card readers connected in laptops?
pci or usb?

Command "lspci" in terminal should give info about the card reader.

It's a memory card slot which recognizes as a removable disk (mine does anyway). In Puppy mine shows as sdc1

uSDHC in an SD-Card adapter in my netbook reads as 'Single Flash Reader' (sdc1) by GParted. FWIW

Regards
8Geee

my laptop is acer aspire one happy. 10" 32 bit, 2011, ..
this memory card (MMC) slot isn't in usb but in her home (PCI)...
why this MMC PCI slot can't read my MMC? in win 7, this is work well. thx a lot
is this cause the driver or something else? if yes, what driver should I use?

If that is the original part from the Acer Aspire 1, you do need a MMC device-driver. The card-reader is special to MMC. I don't know how those were set up USB or PCI, but this part looks to be mini-pci-e a special version different than the wifi socket.

Regards
8Geee

You still have not identified what kind of card you are using in the reader.

Running "lspci" in terminal should give some more info.

this is the result i type "lspci"... then what should i do?thx

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx DMI Bridge (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation NM10 Family LPC Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR8152 v1.1 Fast Ethernet (rev c1)
02:00.0 Network controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)

rcrsn51 wrote:You still have not identified what kind of card you are using in the reader.

I have an Acer Aspire netbook with Slacko 5.6. The card reader is NOT listed in lspci and it doesn't work.

In newer Linuxes, it is identified as a JMicron MMC controller (after you plug in a card) and it works.

Try a newer Puppy.

Or maybe do a kernel upgrade. Ask for help in the Slacko 630 thread.

Sometimes, touching the memory with a bare hand causes the memory to be damaged.