pcmcia - do I need it?

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Samstag, den 20.11.2004, 09:56 -0800 schrieb Clayton Anderson:
> Shango Oluwa wrote:
> > Just 'cd' to /etc/rc2.d and there you will find a link referring to the
> > PCMCIA start-up script (which is actually located in /etc/init.d)
> > 
> > The solution you seek is to rename the link to something else than
> > 'S##pcmcia' (the hashes represent a number which I'm not sure what it
> > is). You can easily do this with the 'mv' command: 
> > 
> > mv /etc/rc2.d/S##pcmcia /etc/rc2.d/disabled_S##pcmcia
> > 
> > Now, at system startup, PCMCIA will not load, because 'init' only starts
> > links beginning with "S". 
> > 
> > Obviously, replace the hashes with whatever number is relevant. It is
> > common practice to add a prefix (e.g. "disabled_") rather than deleting
> > the link - this way you'll know what it is when you find it months or
> > years later!
> > 
> > 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.
> > 
> > !!NB!! You should *not* rename the links in rc0.d and rc6.d
> > 
> > (Some google'ing about runlevels will let you understand why.)  
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Shango Oluwa
> > 
> > 
> > On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 10:02 -0500, David M. Carney wrote:
> > 
> >>WITHOUT getting into the whole discussion of the proper way to disable
> >>initscripts again, I too get the PCMCIA error at boot time.
> >>
> >>My computer is a desktop and it (to my limited knowledge) it does not
> >>use PCMCIA, which to my understanding is mainly for laptops.
> >>
> >>Is there some way to remove a package to keep it from loading?
> >>
> >>David
> >>
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> >>
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> >>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> Or how about "update-rc.d pcmcia remove"?
do not use update-rc.d, its not for runlevel management....
better see here:
http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/UbuntuBootupHowto

ciao
	oli

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