sd card reader on lenovo e430

This may no longer work with the new 3.5 kernel or 12.1 ubuntu... see UPDATE: below.
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So my sd card reader wasn't working out of the box with my Lenovo e430 and Ubuntu (currently 12.04 Precise). I googled a bit and found this blog post, which finds out the device name using lspci (RealTek 5229), references this archwiki article on the Lenovo E430, which gets you to this driver page on the RealTek website, so that finally you can extract the drivers and run (corrected type in the final line of the original blog post:

$make
$sudo make install
$sudo depmod
$sudo modprobe rts5229

And it works! You shouldn't need to reboot, mine worked straight away after modprobe.

UPDATE:
This just stopped working (maybe because of kernel upgrade? I'm now on the 3.5 kernel, 12.10 Quantal), modprobe retuning this error:

FATAL: Module rts5229 not found.

I found this thread, where a user had had the same problem, and they linked to a ppa for lenovo fixes! I added it to my software sources, sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install rts-5229-dkms. It still didn't work when I plugged it in, but sudo modprobe rts5229 worked straight away.So in short:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jamesf/lenovofixessudo apt-get updatesudo apt-get install rts-5229-dkmssudo modprobe rts5229

should solve this problem, at this time...  

Lenovo recovery after I wiped my windows partition

So I just got a new lenovo laptop, from the thinkpad edge range. And so I booted it up, did the set-up in windows 7, and then plugged in my Ubuntu live USB and rebooted. For some reason when i resized my partitions it decided to format them (I swear I've never had it do that before), leaving me without a windows installation! So I installed ubuntu and made several partitions, leaving me with a set-up like this:
Windows Boot Loader (about a 1G partition that was already there)
50GB ext4 for ubuntu
50GB NTFS for windows
300 GB NTFS for shared data
20GB Lenovo recovery drive

Presumably I could just boot with the boot loader and it would detect that I did not have a functioning windows system, right? Well, it did, but it couldn't really do anymore than that. It failed to find my recovery partition and I spent some time rebooting and trying every different option under the boot loader. I googled a bit and found various advice about changing GRUB, copying the recovery drive over to another computer and making recovery disks, etc. etc. I tried to change GRUB, but still the boot-loader would not recognise the recovery drive (the recovery drive itself is not bootable).

Alas, the internet was failing me. I tried to boot the recovery software with cross-over, but I didn't have any burning software so that ended there. I actually decided to have a look at my recovery drive, which had a giant .wim file on it (called cdrive or something, there's also an sdrive image which I assume is the system drive image). Having not dealt with windows in a while I googled that, discovered it was an image and extracted it with archive manager onto my windows partition.

 I added a boot flag to it in partition manager (I have no idea if this was required, I just did it anyway) and then ran sudo grub-update (definitely needed). Reboot, Windows appears under GRUB, I boot into it and it works fine! Well, except for some of the lenovo stuff is a bit wonky, but otherwise, perfect. So all you need to do is find your image on your recovery drive and extract it to a partition. Super simple stuff really.