pccardd: what is this ?!

[Paulo M C Aragão <yagpaulo-listas@yahoo.com>]

Hi,

I noticed today the following daemons running:

UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
root      1121     1  0 Nov11 ?        00:00:00 [pccardd]
root      1123     1  0 Nov11 ?        00:00:00 [pccardd]

but can't establish what they are.

I'm running:

updated Debian sid
kernel 2.6.14-1-686
pcmcia-cs 3.2.8-5.2

I've tried:

dpkg -S pccardd
grep pccardd /etc/init.d/*
find /bin /usr/bin /sbin /usr/sbin -name pccardd

but it's nowhere.

I also noticed that the link /proc/1123/exe is broken.

I googled for 'pccardd' and all hits referred to FreeBSD. It looks like it's 
functionally equivalent to cardmgr(8). But no hits referred to Debian.

I started to worry that my laptop might have been attacked.

Does anybody know what are these 'pccardd' daemons ?

Thanks
Paulo