SD Card reader on Lenovo E430 on Ubuntuo 12.04
The built-in card reader on the E430 doesn't work under Linux.
$lspci
02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 5229 (rev 01)
Not a lot of info in lspci, but a a bit of googling turned up some notes about building on Arch Linux:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_Edge_E430#SD_Card_Reader
Based on the notes there, I just grabbed the 5229 drivers from this page:
And from there, it just required unpacking the source and running:
$make
$sudo make install
$sudo depmod
$sudo modprobe rtl5229
The README says you need to reboot, but modprobe worked fine for me.
Written by Russ Lankenau
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