if the USB card reader and drive are powered via a PCMCIA slot, don't stop this service. But it would seem these are just hooked into your existing USB slots, which has yet another service running for these. So if your using the USB stuff from a card attached to a PCMCIA slot, which it doesn't seem you are, you wouldnt want to shut off this service. Give it a whirl, and Im sure you will still have your USB drive and card reader. Daniel (i had sent a reply to your questions, but it seems to have hit a PLUG mail blackhole) Michael Havens wrote: well, just killing samba and bluetooth frees about 700KB top says total memory is 385264KB and that of that 10042KB is free with those afore mentioned services stopped. as for running chkconfig it isn't on the system. I tried to apt-get it but the computer said the program was probably obsolete and that there was no instalation canidate. As for the PCMCIA card I have a USB drive and a USB multicard reader/writer; does either of those count? On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:16:27 -0700, Kenneth wrote: > I doubt having these running is affecting your performance, unless you > have > very little memory to work with. As someone else said, chkconfig is a > command-line utility to manipulate this stuff if it exists on your > system, > and many distros include a graphical utility to check and uncheck > services. > > --- Michael Havens wrote: > >> I was watching bootup and it seems I have a bunch of unnecessary >> services >> starting at boot. >> - PCMCIA >> - RAID >> - hcid >> - sdpd >> - SAMBA >> - HP Linux Printing and Imaging >> I'm not wireless (PCMCIA), I'm not backing up across multiple drives >> (RAID), I don't need BLUETOOTH (hcid/sdpd), and I'm not connected with a >> Windows box, neither do I have a an HP Printer/Scanner. >> >> Am I correct in what I think these services do? Which file do I need to >> comment these entries out of. Perhaps this is what is slowing things >> down. >> >> What do you think? >> -- >> :~)MIKE(~: >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Any questions? Get answers on any topic at www.Answers.yahoo.com. Try > it now. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :~)MIKE(~: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------- Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on Yahoo! Answers.