No Michael they do not. You system has USB natively and no PCMIA. Just as an aside, one of the problems with one of the ubuntu RCs as I recall was a failure to boot on a lot of desktops based on a failure response on the probe for pcmia with VERY few desktops have. On 12/4/06, 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 > -- Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss