I installed Ubuntu on my netbook but I cant seem to get it to recognize the built in sd card slot. Was wondering if there was a driver i need to download or some way for it to mount?

Can you give the output of:

lsusb

Thanks

Can you also boot without a card in the reader, log in then wait for the system to settle, plug in a card, wait 10 seconds then run:

dmesg | tail -n 20

What is output

Thanks

I dont know what Isusb is so im not sure.

press CTRL + ALT + T

to launch a terminal, you can then type the command (spoken it is: ell-ess-you-es-bee)

and copy the output and paste here as an ouput

You can also copy the 2nd command in the same terminal and copy the output to paste here the same.

[ 6696.140421] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 6696.141495] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 6696.157580] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 6696.161617] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 7837696 512-byte logical blocks: (4.01 GB/3.73 GiB)
[ 6696.163005] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 6696.163015] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 6696.163021] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6696.167360] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6696.167376] sdb: sdb1
[ 6696.179653] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 6696.179670] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 7067.850220] ath5k phy0: noise floor calibration timeout (2437MHz)
[ 8843.296191] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[ 8843.296450] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[ 9217.973793] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 3
[11575.910842] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
[11757.019456] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
[11884.655252] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
[12192.707478] ath5k phy0: unsupported jumbo
[12226.885512] isofs_fill_super: bread failed, dev=loop0, iso_blknum=16, block=32

ok looks like the partition is seen (/dev/sdb1)

Ok what is the output of:

sudo fdisk -l; mount

Thanks

Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0002987a

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 14224 114248704 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14224 14594 2969601 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 14224 14594 2969600 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/spencer/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=spencer)

and the output of:

sudo blkid

Thanks

/dev/sda1: UUID="f5b8122e-3bba-438c-a3cc-ebf9cbb46e34" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda5: UUID="31d9ffe3-27b1-4820-9f44-32141a006a70" TYPE="swap"

Weird, the system picks up an sdb, as opposed to sda which is your internal drive. Maybe someone else can contribute. I'll have a head scratch

thanks for your help

Hi,

I searched a little bit and found this:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1502972

Which describes a similar problem dans messages of the kernel as yours. Some of the solution prescribed are lonked to this page:

http://subbass.blogspot.com/2010/05/howto-ubuntu-1004-lucid-post-install.html

It's for lucid though.

Hope that helps.

ok it says to edit /etc/default/grub (as root ofc) and find a line and change it. how exactly do i go about doing that?
Sorry im new to linux

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.