startup

chopp · 10-06-2003, 11:59 PM

Two out of four time's I restart my laptop, it get's to "start pcmcia"
Then it sais "cardmgr (xxx): starting, version is 3.2.3.
Then it just hang's. I have left it at that point a few time's, but no go.

Then I shut it down, and when it ask's me if I want to do a file integrity check, well I wouldn't even think of doing that. Took me too long to recover from the last time I did it.
Anyway, what the heck is this cardmgr thing?

thank's
chopp

quatsch · 10-07-2003, 12:26 AM

the cardmgr manages your pcmcia cards. If you don't have any cards, you can safely disable it from starting up at boot - yo ucan always manually start pcmcia. Go to mandrake control center -> system -> drakxservices and uncheck pcmcia. While you are at it, you can also see if there are other things you don't really need to have started at boot time.

chopp · 10-07-2003, 12:42 AM

I will disable it if I can start it with a command from console.
I don't want to have to go into Mandrake config everytime I re-start.

chopp

quatsch · 10-07-2003, 12:46 AM

you can start pcmcia by becoming root and then
service pcmcia start
stop it by
service pcmcia stop

chopp · 10-07-2003, 02:01 AM

Thank's for your help.

chopp