Since switching to fedora, I have been testing out its features and i just now ran into my first problem; Since my laptop doesn’t have a SD card reader, I have to use an external SD card reader when i want to access my microSD cards. I recently tried to put in my Acer 2-in-1 SD Card reader and my system did not pick up that i inserted the card reader. I’m not sure on what I am supposed to do about that, so if anyone can give me any advice I’ll appreciate it.
I see. My bad, I was reading it on my phone. If you don’t have the flashdrive connected, and you only have an nvme drive in your laptop, then the sdb and sdc devices would be from your card reader. I am thinking sdc is the card reader since it shows 30.6M size. However that would be a very small card in 2026. It’s a little surprising to me it’s not even showing partitions for sdb or sdc in lsblk output.
Is the card pre-formatted (or did you format it)? Is it readable on another device?
Edit: I forgot to mention: if your card is formatted as exfat, you may need to load the exfat module:
If you have it, you should see exfat in the output from the second command. More information here
No it’s not formatted. It came as is when I bought it and I have not done anything to it besides putting my microsd cards in it. And you are right, that disk under sdc is the SD card reader.
Crazy thing, this SD card reader was reading fine when I was using Pop Os (even though cosmic was hella buggy). Idk… I kinda find this freaking ridiculous that it cant read it when this is the default file manager.
but let me see if it’s labeled as exfat…
Ok, so I took an old sacrificial microSD card (4GB lol) and put it in a janky old USB reader I have, connected it to my Fedora PC.
I can reproduce what you are seeing if I delete the partitions off the card. Now, when I insert the reader, it blinks but nothing prompts me to format it or do anything with it. It does not appear in Dolphin in any way. Not an ideal user experience.
To do anything with it, I have to open KDE Partition Manager, find the device, and create a new partition on it. As soon as I do that, what you would normally expect to happen, happens: a popup announced it is available and gives me the option to mount it, and it shows up under removable devices in Dolphin.
That if anything sounds more like a bug on Dolphin’s part. I’m not gonna do that just to get it to read the micro sd card.
Honesly, im getting annoyed with dealing with these stupid, very tedious bugs, and the crazy amount of updates that have been going on within Fedora lately are not helping.
Understandable. However, I don’t think it’s necessarily unique to KDE (and thus Dolphin). The Gnome Files application does not seem to see it, either, if I leave it unformatted. Most cards I have bought came preformatted, so this may be less common of a problem for the typical user, though.
As for updates, Fedora is technically a rolling release distro, so frequent updates are expected. With Fedora 45 just having been released, there has been a slightly higher rate of releases.
I’ve had some issues with Fedora myself, and I found really good help after posting on the Fedora Discussion boards if you would like to try there.
I really appreciate your help, i really do. Im gonna see if downloading Fedora 45 helps, along with going through the community forum.
Happy to help! Best of luck to you in the forums. I was amazed how helpful certain people on the forums are. I had gotten myself into a real mess with conflicting packages and they walked me through the entire repair process. I don’t think I could have paid for that level of service. YMMV as always.