Hi, everyone, I'm trying to get an SD card reader to work in Gentoo, but no success so far. Hoping that someone can point out what I'm doing wrong.
The hardware is an old Dell Inspiron 5759 laptop featuring a RealTek RTS5129 usb sd card reader. The kernel is gentoo-sources-6.1.31. The sd card should contain a FAT file system with mp3 files, was written by an older MacBook, and has been observed to supply sounds to an Arduino/mp3 player setup. I have followed the setup directions in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/PCSC-Lite using the ccid driver. I've enabled hotplug in openrc per the instructions on that page. I'm using a kernel with CONFIG_MISC_RTSX=m and CONFIG_MISC_RTSX_USB=m. I have rc_hotplug="pcscd" in /etc/rc.conf and have confirmed that module rtsx_usb is actually loaded. I've emerged pcsc-lite using the default use flags of policykit, udev, and python_single_target_python3_11. When I put the sd card into its slot (or take it out), dmesg doesn't report anything, There isn't any device reported under /dev that looks to my untrained eye like something that might belong to this card reader. lsusb does report the presence of an RTS5129 card reader controller. I'm over my head debugging this. Haven't found much via Google and nothing very recent. If anyone has ideas about what to try or how to debug, I'd be very happy to try any and all suggestions. Thanks! John Blinka
