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How to Enable Card Reader on macOS [Clover/OpenCore]
An EliteMacx86 Exclusive Guide - This guide covers implementation of Card Reader on macOS using Clover and OpenCore.
Overview
Card Reader can be an essential requirement for the users who are into editing or photography. On some of the hardware, the Card Reader may work OOTB, without any need of drivers or .plist editing. But for most of the times, the Card Readers doesn't works OOTB. You'll need to enable it manually. Card Readers are either on USB or PCIe Bus. For the moment, only Realtek Card Readers are supported. For more information on supported models, refer to the support list below.
Supported Device ID and Vendor ID
Adding required kext
To enable the Card Reader support, you'll need to add Sinetek-rtsx.kext
Download the Sinetek-rtsx.kext from the downloads section of this forum.
For Clover:
If you're using Clover, copy the kext from Release to EFI/Clover/Kext/Others
For OpenCore:
If you're using OpenCore, copy the kext to EFI/OC/Kexts. You'll also need to add the kext entry in Kernel section of your config.plist
Restart your System
After performing all the above steps, restart your system for the applied changes to take effect.
Note:
Problem Reporting
Details:
An EliteMacx86 Exclusive Guide - This guide covers implementation of Card Reader on macOS using Clover and OpenCore.
Overview
Card Reader can be an essential requirement for the users who are into editing or photography. On some of the hardware, the Card Reader may work OOTB, without any need of drivers or .plist editing. But for most of the times, the Card Readers doesn't works OOTB. You'll need to enable it manually. Card Readers are either on USB or PCIe Bus. For the moment, only Realtek Card Readers are supported. For more information on supported models, refer to the support list below.
Supported Device ID and Vendor ID
Device ID | Vendor ID |
---|---|
5209 | 10EC |
5227 | 10EC |
5229 | 10EC |
522A | 10EC |
5249 | 10EC |
5286 | 10EC |
5287 | 10EC |
5289 | 10EC |
525A | 10EC |
Adding required kext
To enable the Card Reader support, you'll need to add Sinetek-rtsx.kext
Download the Sinetek-rtsx.kext from the downloads section of this forum.
For Clover:
If you're using Clover, copy the kext from Release to EFI/Clover/Kext/Others
For OpenCore:
If you're using OpenCore, copy the kext to EFI/OC/Kexts. You'll also need to add the kext entry in Kernel section of your config.plist
Restart your System
After performing all the above steps, restart your system for the applied changes to take effect.
Note:
- The Card Reader information will not load under > About This Mac>System Report>Card Reader.
- Most of the PCIe Cards doesn't works with macOS due to lack of drivers.
Problem Reporting
Details:
- macOS version
- Copy of IOReg
- Kextcache output
- Hackintool>PCIe
- About This Mac
- For Clover, compress EFI/Clover, exclude the themes folder.
- For OpenCore, compress EFI/OC.
- Do not include complete EFI folder.
- Put all files in a folder with your name, compress files as Zip and attach files using site attachments only.
- Do not use any external links.
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