SD card not detected in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS!!
Problem : I inserted my 32GB of SD card in the slot of my Lenevo L430 laptop. Unfortunately it could not be detected. I found out that i dont have the device driver installed. Solution : I installed the device driver and bingo. Please find the steps which i did to solve this problem. 1. Find out the make of the SD card reader. I found out that the card reader is known to OS but somehow not reading the SD card in it. $ sudo lspci -vnn | grep -A5 RTS5229 01:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS5229 PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:5229] (rev 01) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:21f7] Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at f1e00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Go to the realtek site and download the device driver for RTS5229. You can download it from here Note: if you try to download it fro