In article <44C44394.2050605@gmail.com>,
Jan Danielsson  <jan.danielsson@gmail.com> wrote:
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>Hello all,
>
>   First of all, my NetBSD system has been acting up for another reason
>than the one mentioned in this post, so it has been sent away for some
>service. That means I can't try anything for a while, but I will as soon
>as I get it back.
>
>   Anyway.. I have a NetBSD/amd64 3.0 system which I am, apart from two
>issues, very happy with.
>
>   When I bought the box for my system, it came with a card reader. It
>had some funky 1x5-pin connector which I used to connect it to an
>internal 2x5-1 USB-port.
>
>   I almost expected it to Just Work, since I was pleasantly surprised
>that the card reader my sister bought worked in NetBSD/i386 3.0 without
>any fuzz. But when I insert an SD card in my card reader, the LED on the
>device lights up, but I get no reaction from NetBSD (usually there's
>some green text on the console).
>
>   Just to rule out hardware problems I tried booting up the Ubuntu
>Install/LiveCD 6.something. When I inserted the SD card there, it did
>react. On the console I saw that I got some kind of /dev/sdc schtick, so
>I'm fairly sure there's no problem with the card, the card reader och
>the USB host.
>
>   But why doesn't my NetBSD system react when I insert the SD card?
>
>   I guess the question boils down to "Is NetBSD even recognizing the
>card reader"? It seems like it isn't, because then I run "usbdevs", it
>lists four ports (which, afaik, is what the motherboard has), but it
>does not list the card reader.
>
>   On NetBSD/i386 I could run pciid to scan the pci bus, and I would see
>devices that weren't even detected by NetBSD, if there were any, I
>guess. Isn't that the point of "usbdevs"? To be able to see all units
>detected by the USB host, despite if the OS actually knows how to use
>them or not?
>
>   What could be the reason that NetBSD doesn't detect the card reader?
>
>   I will get back with an dmesg when I get my system back, but does
>anyone have any theories?


Yes, and post your configuration file. It could be that the device
driver needed is not compiled in your kernel.

christos