I've had a similar issue on Kubuntu 10.04 Lucid, whenever I plugged in a SD card, nothing happens. No udev event (sudo udevadm monitor), no dmesg entry.
>From `lsusb`: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 058f:9360 Alcor Micro Corp. 8-in-1 Media Card Reader So, it appears to be a driver issue. With modprobe sd<tab>, I found a driver that could help: sdhci sudo modprobe sdhci After running that command, the LED turns on when I insert the SD card and the partitions gets recognised: [ 4436.228130] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver [ 4436.228135] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman [ 4461.265083] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 3985408 512-byte logical blocks: (2.04 GB/1.90 GiB) [ 4461.272168] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is on [ 4461.272174] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00 [ 4461.272178] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4461.282106] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [ 4461.282114] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/366478 Title: Alcor Micro Corp. Multimedia Card Reader don't work in Ubuntu 9.04/9.10 (058f:6362 Device offlined) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/366478/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs