From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 24 01:09:01 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BDA6106575B for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tom@diogunix.com) Received: from mail.kepos.org (mail.kepos.org [64.120.5.168]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38FD18FC14 for ; Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 +0000 (UTC) From: "tom@diogunix.com" To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:51:39 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201201240151.39362.tom@diogunix.com> Subject: Ricoh SD card reader issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:09:01 -0000 Hi @all, I recently got me a Thinkpad T510i with an internal Ricoh Card Reader and put FreeBSD 9 RELEASE on the new machine. Unfortunately it seems one cannot get a new device in /dev though loading sdhci / mmc / mmcsd modules I get messages via dmesg and /var/log/messages but no new device pops up (what device name is usually used ?) Searching the web, I found that (at least in 2009) TI obviously refused to reveal information to mav@freebsd.org who wanted to work on a workaround. Just now asking whether this state still is valid today. Any news on this ? kind regards Tom PS: Sometimes I believe the BSD community (and maybe Linux community) should try to establish sort of a "Unix-Ready" Certificate to force hardware sellers to make better products. This at least would help us to make better decisions when buying hardware. Regarding the increasing market share of Ubuntu, there might be some relevance for this for hardware manufacturers ;-)