[ltp] How to get specs of a Thinkpad device (X40 SD Card Reader)

Matthew Garrett linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 29 Jul 2005 16:51:46 +0100


On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:27:17PM +0200, Tomās Núņez Lirola wrote:
> I'm looking for the drivers for the ThinkPad X40 SD Card Reader.
> They don't exist, and I want to try to build them, but I lack de specs,
> and I don't know where to get them. I've written to Ricoh, IBM, and got no
> response.

You can't. The SD consortium license prevents manufacturers from 
releasing sufficient specs. Your only real hope is to reverse engineer 
the Windows driver.

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