[NTLUG:Discuss] Kppp freezing?

[Richard Cobbe]

Lo, on Thursday, 18 May, 2000, Neil Aggarwal did write:

> Kyle:
> 
> I see :
> ppp_deflate - autoclean
> bsd_comp - autoclean
> ppp - autoclean
> slhc - autoclean
> ds
> i82365
> pcmcia_core
> 
> How do I turn off the autoclean?

You probably don't need to.  That just means that the module was loaded on
demand because its services were needed.  It'll be unloaded automatically
some time after the services are no longer required.  In the case of ppp,
this will likely be a few minutes after you hang up the connection.

Another poster suggested that the modules might be removing themselves when
they're not supposed to; this strikes me as fairly unlikely.  However, if
you want to check this theory, then the easiest way to get rid of the
autoclean is to do the following:

rmmod ppp_deflate
rmmod bsd_comp
rmmod ppp
rmmod slhc
# note that you might have to adjust the order of the above, due to
# inter-module dependencies.
modprobe ppp bsd_comp
# that loads the ppp & bsd_comp modules, plus any others on which they
# depend.

I'm like Al; I've had DSL so long I've forgotten how to dial up, so you may
need to add additional modules.

Richard