Comments on: Trying (and failing) to get Ubuntu to work

By: Dylan

Dylan — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:28:28 +0000

Well I have a similar problem, but I hardly thought card readers would differ significantly. My local store only stocks 1 model of USB reader so wiki doesn’t help much. I guess the method should be:
1. choose software package you want
2. find operating system that will run this package
3. find PC that will run this operating system
Then you end up with 4 or so (virtual?) PC.

By: Mike Loepz

Mike Loepz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 05:37:12 +0000

Hi Matt,

I too lament with you. I’ve been using Ubuntu since the Feisty days and I never had a “fully working” system on any of the versions since Feisty. Either I get some problems with the video, the printer, hibernate and/or suspend, and LCD light dimming (I’m using a laptop). I’ve never had any problems with card readers though because the only card reader I have is the one included in my laptop hardware (which luckily works).

Now, I’m using Intrepid Ibex and all seems to be well except for the ACPI problems (suspend, hibernate, LCD).

Mike

By: Russ Jones

Russ Jones — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:24:57 +0000

My sympathies. I have been fighting tooth and nail to get my USB bluetooth adpater to work on my Ubuntu laptop. I think there is a problem with the USB handling altogether, though, as I have had problems historically with my Blackberry. Hell, the only USB devices I have ever gotten to work successfully are simple flash drives and printers. But when I enter a room with geeks, I have instant street cred.

By: ardy

ardy — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 02:53:21 +0000

instead of spending all that time trouble shooting, you could go do a little research before making an impulse buy.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsCardReaders?highlight=(reader)|(card)|(sd)

seriously, before picking up anything from anywhere, you should look up which products are good to go for the OS you use. It’s not like you never saw this coming.

I wonder if you would you have written a similar post if you had a bought a printer for you mac, only to find out it no one supplied drivers for that printer on that OS.

you go to the ubuntu developer summit with this story and they will pick you apart. The ubuntu wiki is there and it is mainted so that situations exactly like this one don’t happen. and there you go, ignoring it and getting what you deserve.

sorry, but it’s not like no one is trying.

By: Dani

Dani — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:53:55 +0000

Linux is still not ready for the non-tech-savy user. After using Suse for many years and switching to Ubuntu this year, I thought it would be better, but it’s not really.

By: Chetan Kunte

Chetan Kunte — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:04:48 +0000

As promised . And like I said earlier, all card readers as well as all cards read just fine. Some screenshots:

Sandisk Card reader with a micro-SD mounted:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chetan/3060811762/

Drive properties:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chetan/3060811762/

Volume properties:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chetan/3060811954/

Internal, and external Card reader
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chetan/3060812642/

My ubuntu version:

chetan@ckunte:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10
Codename: intrepid

By: Jorge

Jorge — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:39:53 +0000

Ya, I have had similar problems getting ubuntu to work with a few devices. Here is what I do to fix the problem: stop trying to get the device to work on my laptop and wait for a updated version to come out.

By: Ian M

Ian M — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:47:10 +0000

Sorry, I meant “possibly a hardware issue you’re having” – mine is obviously a hardware issue

By: Ian M

Ian M — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:46:19 +0000

I’ve got a USB + 5-in-1 cardreader front plate for my PC which if plugged into a certain USB port on the motherboard stops the system booting, and on another gives IO errors. Possibly a hardware issue?

By: Chetan Kunte

Chetan Kunte — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:59:19 +0000

Matt, I have an old HP Pavilion (2005) as a desktop, which has a 16-in-1 card reader plus a USB 2.0 port. (This computer came pre-installed with Windows when I bought it in 2005.) In Nov 2007, I installed Ubuntu 7. Today it is running 8.10. I have a number of memory cards (CF, SD, and XD) all of which work flawlessly (and have worked on all versions of ubuntu since 7).

In addition, I have the usb memory card reader (exactly the one shown in your picture). I believe this works too—exactly like a camera connected to the computer via a USB port. (The volume is simply mounted as an external drive; and often a wizard comes up–like in Windows to help me transfer the media files.) But let me double-check for sure, and post back.

Btw, you didn’t mention what computer you are using together with this device. Since I have a working system with the kind of hardware you have trouble with, please let me know if you are looking for specific/diagnostic info which would help you solve the problem.