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Date:      Sun, 25 May 2008 00:23:41 +0300
From:      Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr>
To:        Andrei Flame <fla22me@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to mount memory stick on sony vaio laptop?
Message-ID:  <4838875D.9020005@otenet.gr>
In-Reply-To: <420365.62541.qm@web57212.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
References:  <420365.62541.qm@web57212.mail.re3.yahoo.com>

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Andrei Flame wrote:
> I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on my Sony
> Vaio VGN-FE31ZR laptop with built-in memory stick duo
> pro slot. 
> The problem is that I can't get memory stick card
> detected and mounted. When I'm inserting a card,
> nothing happens - no new messages in dmesg and
> /var/log/messages, no /dev/da0 device.
>
> Here is my dmesg output:
> Copyright (c) 1992-2008 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989,
> 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> 	The Regents of the University of California. All
> rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD
> Foundation.
> FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008
>   
<SNIP>
>    
> pci10: <mass storage> at device 3.2 (no driver
> attached)
>
>   

This is, I am afraid, your card reader device :(
I happen to have an Acer laptop where the card reader is not supported 
either. These readers work in a different way, they are not a standard 
(internally connected) USB device as you may have thought.



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