Wed 4 Jun 2008
Dear Lazy Web: are Sony Memory Stick (MS) and Memory Stick Pro (MSP) Ubuntu-friendly ?
Posted by Fabin Rodrguez under Hewlett-Packard, Lazy Web, Linux, Support, Tech, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Planet
I’ve just filed Bug #237369,JMicron card reader (152d:2339) in HP Pavilion 2035la doesn’t support Memory Stick Pro (MSP) for a friend in the #ubuntu-co channel that has an HP Pavilion DV 2035la (or DV 2000 series as they call it). I was a bit surprised that Sony Memory Stick (MS) and Memory Stick Pro (MSP) cards would not be supported yet and I am seeing contradictory reports on this.
Apparently MS* support is card-reader specific, and this one’s USB id (152d:2339) doesn’t seem very common.
If anyone knows what the status of MS* support is in Linux (and Ubuntu specifically), I’ll gladly stop writing keyword intensive posts like this one 
June 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
I have a working MS/MS Pro reader in Fedora Core 4 (2.6.14, so ages old), so its likely to be a card-reader specific problem.
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June 4th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
The MS Pro works in my PSP. There was a bug in Gutsy — if you deleted a file through the PSP, Gutsy would show the wrong free space — but it seems to have been corrected in Hardy.
June 4th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
If your card reader’s chipset is from Texas Instruments, memory sticks are supported.
For any other card reader, there is no support, as far as I know.
June 4th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
+1 for the PSP.
I use various MS Pro Duo through the USB interface of the PSP without any problem.
June 4th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
I have a cheap ‘n’ nasty external USB 2.0 cardreader which among other things does MS/MS-PRO and it works out of the box on Feisty onwards at least.
I also have an oldish Intel-based Vaio with a Memory Stick slot in it (marked Magic Gate whatever the heck that it). That only worked (Hardy) after I downloaded and compiled a module I found by Googling. Now it works fine, except that I have to remember to “make && sudo make install” every time I get a kernel upgrade!
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