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[Andy Vandijck]

I have succeeded in making Apple's new driver for memory cards (since 10.6.5) working on any USB card reader (internal or external)

Installation steps:
first edit the plist and insert your card readers vendor and device id (where needed).
The parts you need to edit for this step are:
- Fake Apple Card Reader Device
- Fake Apple Card Reader Interface
- Fake Apple Card Reader UMC Inject
- Fake Apple Card Reader SBC Inject
- Any_Internal_SD_Card_Reader_1_00
You can use System Profiler for the vendor + product id's or IORegistryExplorer.
The following are the id's you need to look up in IORegistryExplorer:
- idVendor
- idProduct
If you use a text editor convert the id's to decimal with Calculator.
Insert them in the idVendor and idProduct parts respectively

Then we need to add the SCSI device id's to the following parts:
- AnySDCardReaderAnySBC
- Fake Apple Card Reader SCSI Inject
For this you also need IORegistryExplorer (download below if you don't have it).
Open IORegistryExplorer and next insert a memory card (SD/MMC/...)
Look under the EHCI parts for finding the memory card host controller (will be green because of card insertion).
Under the device look for the IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceNub entry (below the USB device)
Click on this and look for:
- Vendor Identification
- Product Identification
Change these in the Info.plist to the values you see there (Fake Apple Card Reader SCSI Inject + AnySDCardReaderAnySBC)

Install the edited kext using Terminal or kext utility.
Reboot and remove the memory card.
After boot reinsert it and you should see a little SD memory card appearing for the SD card (cool) if you did it right and if you check System Profiler under Card Reader the device will be listed as Apple built-in Card Reader.

Download for needed IORegistryExplorer tool:
http://rapidshare.co...tryExplorer.zip

Download:
http://rapidshare.co...Reader.kext.zip

Here are some pictures on how it looks like on my computer.
Forgot to mention: the default kext id's are for the memory card reader inside the Acer Aspire One D250.

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[ErmaC]

Andy Vandijck, on Nov 13 2010, 10:17 PM, said:

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I will try!

Thanks Andy for all your nice job!

Very apreciated personalizations!

Fabio

[tdtran1025]

The link keeps asking for upgrade account to download. Please look into it.

[Andy Vandijck]

tdtran1025, on Nov 14 2010, 12:55 AM, said:

The link keeps asking for upgrade account to download. Please look into it.

I uploaded it to the forum as well.  

[quinielascom]

Is possible modify this Legacy driver for attach to IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext as Internal Apple Card Reader ?

The IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext is for:

SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (No USB)

  Vendor ID: 0x1180
  Device ID: 0x0822
  Sub Vendor ID: 0x1025
  Sub System ID: 0x011d
  Revision ID: 0x0022

And could work with AppleSDXC.kext (Apple Driver released in 10.6.5) but fails to mount any card.

http://www.projectos...?showtopic=1405

[Andy Vandijck]

quinielascom, on Nov 14 2010, 04:18 AM, said:

Is possible modify this Legacy driver for attach to IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext as Internal Apple Card Reader ?

The IOSDHCIBlockDevice.kext is for:

SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (No USB)

  Vendor ID: 0x1180
  Device ID: 0x0822
  Sub Vendor ID: 0x1025
  Sub System ID: 0x011d
  Revision ID: 0x0022

And could work with AppleSDXC.kext (Apple Driver released in 10.6.5) but fails to mount any card.

http://www.projectos...?showtopic=1405

The driver mentioned here is only for USB (as you allready know).
I would need an .ioreg dump (with IORegistryExplorer) from an autenthic Mac which contains one of these card adapters (e.g. Macmini4,1)
I will look around myself as well and check for this.

[Zprood]

Thanks ,works perfectly.

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[Prasys]

Nice one andy , way cleaner then hacking the kexts and adding the devid and vendor id manually

[jlvaio]

anyway to use it under 10.5.8?

[Zprood]

Hi I just found After log in system ,insert the SD card, and it isn`t mounted. But inserted SD card before start boot ,the driver works perfectly . Can this issue be fix ?

Regards.

[Andy Vandijck]

jlvaio, on Nov 14 2010, 05:39 PM, said:

anyway to use it under 10.5.8?

No, the new drivers are only available on 10.6.5

Zprood, on Nov 14 2010, 06:48 PM, said:

Hi I just found After log in system ,insert the SD card, and it isn`t mounted. But inserted SD card before start boot ,the driver works perfectly . Can this issue be fix ?

Regards.

I guess it depends on the card reader.
I haven't had any issues with this on my card reader (as it only attaches to usb EHCI controller after card insertion).
Could you provide me some more info on your card reader (or possibly a few .ioreg IORegistryExplorer files containing the working and not working states)?

[Zprood]

Yeah, I grap some picture, this is the state and phenomenon .

1, No AnyCardReader.kext, it work normal, just do not show info in the System Profiler and internal device .

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2,
A,) AnyCardReader.kext installed, not insert SD card before booting.

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B, ) But when I make computer sleep and wakeup, the card is mounted. see...

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3, With SD card insert like above reply I post.

Here is the dsdt file, I do some patches to make it can sleep.  dsdt.aml.zip   11.9K   42 downloads

[Prasys]

I had that issue as well , you know how i fixed it , I add IOProbeScore , 100 to it. It simply means that this kext has higher priority compared to normal USB Kexts. You just gotta add or get andy to add it for you

[Zprood]

Prasys, on Nov 15 2010, 09:06 AM, said:

I had that issue as well , you know how i fixed it , I add IOProbeScore , 100 to it. It simply means that this kext has higher priority compared to normal USB Kexts. You just gotta add or get andy to add it for you

Thanks for reply, you mean add IOProbeScore to info.plist ? Or in each part of the info.plist?

I try to add the value but no effect. Can you share you modified kext ?

thanks.

[gatsu_1981]

Works good with cheap internal Keytech USB adapter.

  ID fornitore:    0x05ac
  ID prodotto:    0x8403

Now it is shown as Apple Card Reader. Fine touch

[stefano.85]

Hi guys, i hope i've correctly modified the plist file. This is what i've got with an sd inserted.
I've installed the kext in E/E of my EFI partition
p.s i've got a multi-card reader, is it possible to add support for other types of card in this kext?



attached two screenshots of system profiler

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[BlackCH]

Thank you Andy! Works fine here

[blakken]

Thanks Andy for your work!
I'd say it works half half with my eeepc 1000HE meaning it's not really recognized as internal memory card but it REALLY helps to deepsleep without removing the sd card(but recovering from sleep shows ejection error)
1000HE is particular:it holds under EHCI the webcam and the SDCard reader.
Nevertheless it's really a great work!
I wish it could be realized by DSDT modification but even after googling hours there seems to be no answers.

[alexaffonso]

Andy Vandijck, on Nov 13 2010, 08:17 PM, said:

Open IORegistryExplorer and next insert a memory card (SD/MMC/...)
Look under the EHCI parts for finding the memory card host controller (will be green because of card insertion).
Under the device look for the IOSCSIPeripheralDeviceNub entry (below the USB device)

How should I be able to do that if when I insert a Memory Card into the slot nothing happens? I don't have the slot recognized by the system. Into system profiler, it says I do not have a card reader installed at all.

What should I do?

[blakken]

alexaffonso, on Nov 16 2010, 05:47 PM, said:

How should I be able to do that if when I insert a Memory Card into the slot nothing happens? I don't have the slot recognized by the system. Into system profiler, it says I do not have a card reader installed at all.

What should I do?

Download some linux live edition (for instance ubuntu) and load it .
Click the terminal and write under the shell the command "lspci -nn" without brackets you'll find the product Id and the Vendor Id of you card reader.Convert hexadecimal number found to decimal and insert it to kext as described above.
Otherwise if you have windows installed check the system properties of the sd card ,there should be written as well.