[Debian-eeepc-devel] SD Cards

[Pedro Bulach Gapski]

Fabien, my eee show the same sd card bug, and it has indeed been solved on
newer kernel versions.

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Fabien <pogzy at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>

...


>
> There is still one thing that does not work which is the SD internal reader
> card. At boot time, it hangs up if there was a SD card plugged in the
> reader. After
> reading some posts here and there on the web, I looked on the BIOS but the
> OS
> was already flagged as Installed, some posts say this issue rose when the
> OS is
> set to setup in the BIOS. So I do re-save the bios settings without
> changing
> anything, it does not alt anymore, but I'm still having the error when
> dmesg
> and the SD reader does not work.
> I did some searches on the web & found a kernel bug called last_sector_bug
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.26-git16.log
> (search for eeepc and you'll find it). Some friends of mine told me it's
> easy
> to compile kernel, just pick the config file from /boot, then download
> kernel
> sources, make, add grub entry and that's it. Quite naively I found a debian
> tutorial to compile the kernel and follow it, I pick the last 2.6.28 one
> (to
> replace my 2.6.26.1-686). It compiled nice, I don't understand the config
> file
> which seems to be much more complete that the need of my eeePC 701. Then I
> added the grub entry and try to boot on the newly compiled kernel, but I've
> got
> an error of file format. The new kernel is four times the size of the
> current
> one?
>
> Do you know if there a simple way to fix this SD bug, if there was somebody
> kind enough to post an url to a fixed kernel that I could download and
> install?
> Or do you know some links that could help?


Look for the debian trunk kernels on wiki.debian.org, and install the sid
kernel. I am running fine with linux-image-2.6.28-1-686.

Please keep in mind that you may have to upgrade eeepc-acpi-scripts and
maybe tweak wifi config. Most of it is in the wiki.

[],

Pedro


>
>
> Regards
> Fabien
>
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>
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