pcmcia - do I need it?

[Arnold Maestre]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 16:55:09 +0000, Shango Oluwa <shango at mewe.org.uk> wrote:

> Your conclusion that your desktop does not need to run the PCMCIA daemon
> is correct - I'm sure that your desktop system has no PCMCIA/CardBus
> slots, hence the PCMCIA daemon will only consume (negligible) CPU time.
> 
> Minding the caution below, go to each "rc#.d" directory in /etc and
> rename the link to the pcmcia startup script. You can use the 'mv'
> command outlined above - just be careful to replace "rc2.d" your current
> working directory's appropriate number (e.g. rc4.d , rc5.d , etc). This
> is not an elegant or efficient solution but is a good way for you to
> explore those directories and get a feel for their content.

Or, you could just remove pcmcia from your system altogether:

sudo apt-get remove --purge pcmcia-cs
-- 
Arnold Maestre