Linux Mint does not see Digital Media Card

[TWHKNUT]

I have an "older" HP G60 Notebook PC 32 bit Intel Pentium dual boot with either Windows Vista, or Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04. This machine has a "Digital Media Slot" ( for Micro SD cards physically mounted in an "adapter" ). I'm disappointed because Windows Vista recognizes the (and mounts) the SD card, but Linux Mint doesn't see it. I'm very new to Linux so in all likelyhood it's something I'm not doing.

[Racer-X-]

You could start out by posting all of the text from these commands:

inxi -Fxxz; lspci; lsusb

Copy the text and hit the "</>" button above the text box when you reply. Paste the output from those commands between the "code" and "/code" tags.

[all41]

I have an "older" HP G60 Notebook PC 32 bit Intel Pentium dual boot with either Windows Vista, or Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia base: Ubuntu 18.04. This machine has a "Digital Media Slot" ( for Micro SD cards physically mounted in an "adapter" ). I'm disappointed because Windows Vista recognizes the (and mounts) the SD card, but Linux Mint doesn't see it. I'm very new to Linux so in all likelyhood it's something I'm not doing.

Perhaps your file manager is not set to show mounted volumes.
Open your home directory and click Edit in the toolbar then choose Preferences.
From there it will vary somewhat depending on your desktop (Cinnamon, MATE, Xfce)
As Racer-X- has requested, that inxi -Fxxz terminal inquiry will help
determine exactly how you will proceed if you can't locate that setting.
With the card plugged in you could run terminal inquiry:

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lsblk

You should see a reference to that sd near the bottom of the results
If you can't find it there then a different problem is indicated

[ricardogroetaers]

The memory card drive (device), like the CD / DVD drive, does not appear in the File Manager.
What appears is the media inserted in it, if this media is formatted.

Check that the device appears in the Disks program.

See the figure:



The devices do not appear in the File Manager because there is no media inserted in them but they do appear in the Disks program.

Also check how Removable Media Management is configured.

[TWHKNUT]

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curt@curt-HP-G60-Notecbook-PC:~$ inxi
CPU: Dual Core Pentium T4200 (-MCP-) speed/min/max: 1197/1200/2000 MHz 
Kernel: 5.3.0-28-generic i686 Up: 1d 23h 31m Mem: 736.6/2883.8 MiB (25.5%) 
Storage: 298.21 GiB (26.3% used) Procs: 176 Shell: bash 4.4.20 inxi: 3.0.32 
curt@curt-HP-G60-Notecbook-PC:~$ -Fxxz
-Fxxz: command not found
curt@curt-HP-G60-Notecbook-PC:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) Thermal Subsystem (rev 03)
01:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
curt@curt-HP-G60-Notecbook-PC:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 008 Device 028: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 008 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 04f2:b091 Chicony Electronics Co., Ltd Webcam
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0158 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. USB 2.0 multicard reader
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

[Racer-X-]

You have the RealTek USB card reader in that machine. Do you have linux-modules-extra installed for your kernel? Try sudo apt install linux-modules-extra-`uname -r` from a terminal window. If it installs something, reboot and see if it finds the SD Card when you have one in the slot. If it tells you that you already have the latest version of linux-modules-extra installed, then there's an issue with that Realtek chipset.

I can't find a lot of Linux driver support for that USB reader which is commonly built in to the USB port board on some laptops and all in ones.

[TWHKNUT]

Any chance this is going to screw-up this machine. Anything that implies -- kernel -- scares the ____ out of me. I can easily live without the SD card, but I depend on this machine.

[ricardogroetaers]

I can easily live without the SD card, but I depend on this machine.

The card reader device is recognized as shown in the command above.
Have you checked if the device appears in the Disks program?

You can also purchase a USB memory card adapter and plug the adapter with the card into a USB port. It usually works better than the card reader.

[Racer-X-]

Any chance this is going to screw-up this machine. Anything that implies -- kernel -- scares the ____ out of me. I can easily live without the SD card, but I depend on this machine.

It shouldn't mess anything up with the kernel. However, you're running a kernel that's only been in general release from Ubuntu for 3 weeks. And there have been some issues when this 5.3 kernel was released.

I would strongly recommend the LTS kernel for your older 32 bit hardware.Why did you install the HWE kernel on your older box? That's counter productive. If it was operating reliably on the LTS kernel, you should have kept that LTS kernel.

I'm still waiting on the more detailed output from inxi -Fxxz That will tell a bit more.