Zibri / Realtek-rts5229-linux-driver

Realtek card reader driver for kernel >4.4.x (ubuntu 16.04-17.10 have broken driver and all kernels up to 4.15.0-041500rc1)

General Information

Linux driver for Realtek PCI-Express card reader chip.

Build Steps

1. Clone this repo
2. Copy the whole folder into /usr/src/rts5229-1.07/
3. sudo dkms install -m rts5229 -v 1.07
4. Copy blacklist-rts5229.conf to /etc/modprobe.d/ (Optional)
5. sudo update-initramfs -u
6. sudo dkms autoinstall
7. reboot your computer

Note: Root privilege is required in step 2, 3 and 4

If you wanna unload the module after suspend, run the following command:

$ echo SUSPEND_MODULES="rts5229" | sudo tee -a /etc/pm/config.d/modules

All procedure:

git clone https://github.com/Zibri/Realtek-rts5229-linux-driver.git
sudo mkdir /usr/src/rts5229-1.07
sudo cp Realtek-rts5229-linux-driver/* /usr/src/rts5229-1.07
cd /usr/src/rts5229-1.07
sudo su
> dkms install -m rts5229 -v 1.07
> exit
sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
sudo dkms autoinstall
reboot