So, I've been trying this for the past several hours today, and a couple hours yesterday, still no luck.
My sdcard "shows up" when I insert it, gives me the option to mount, but cannot mount. So I decided to update/install the sdcard reader driver (lsusb shows the card reader, but not the sd card inside it, so I figure it's a driver issue)

Downloaded the driver from the Realtek website into my Downloads folder. Here's my terminal output, for some reason I can't get it to configure, make, or make install at all. NO idea what I'm doing wrong.

root@HotBox:/home/blake# tar -xzf 0001-Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07.zip
tar (child): 0001-Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07.zip: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
tar: Child returned status 2
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
root@HotBox:/home/blake# cd /home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# make
bash: make: command not found
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# make install
bash: make: command not found
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# cd
root@HotBox:~# cd /home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# cd
root@HotBox:~# cd /rts5229
bash: cd: /rts5229: No such file or directory
root@HotBox:~# pwd
/root
root@HotBox:~# cd /home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# ./configure
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# ./configure /home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229
bash: ./configure: No such file or directory
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# make
bash: make: command not found
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# pwd
/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# make
bash: make: command not found
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# make install
bash: make: command not found
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229# modprobe
modprobe: ERROR: missing parameters. See -h.
root@HotBox:/home/blake/Downloads/Realtek_RTS5229_Linux_Driver_v1.07/rts5229#

*I've also tried this ,with the exact same result, with a tar.bz2 file (downloaded two different drivers just in case... one was .zip, the other .bz2)