I've had my 1505n with ubuntu for about a month now, and I love it.  Nearly everything has been very straightforward to get working.  I'm still having problems with one particular part though.

 

I have a couple of xD cards, and they aren't recognized when I insert them into the 5-in-1 card reader that came with my laptop.  One is a 256mb and the other is a 512mb card.  I believe they are Fuji or Olympus branded.  They both work perfectly in a usb xd reader that I can use on the laptop and other computers, so I know the cards are good.  The 5-in-1 reader works fine with SD cards.  I noticed in the driver manager that there is apparently a driver on my computer for reading xD cards, but I don't know enough about linux to know what (if any) details about that driver would be helpful.

 

I searched the dell community forums and noticed that some users who have the inspiron and windows OS were having trouble with xD card reading, but I didn't notice any prior posts in the linux forums about this problem.

 

I can use the cards with my external usb card reader, but it is annoying to have to use that.  I'd much rather get the internal card reader working.  I've tried the obvious fixes (i.e. make sure it's in all the way) and I've tried mounting the device in a terminal window with the mount command, but I'm not a terminal whiz so maybe i didn't do it right.

 

I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has a fix for this.  If I need to provide more information, please tell me what to look for and I will post that too.

Thanks,

M.S.