2009-11-14 Mutt

I installed OpenBSD on my laptop and now I want to get a working mutt setup using my Gmail account. I found an excellent summary online called Using Gmail with mutt, the minimal way.

Networking seems to be veeeery slow. Checking out Emacs from CVS stalling for minutes, pkg_add taking forever, mutt bein glacial. I’m not happy. On the same wireless network the desktop is flying.

From #openbsd:

22:44 **kensanata**

I’m installing emacs-22.3p0 using pkg_add and monitoring my bwi0 download rate using bwm-ng. I see that the Total column is 0.00 KB/s most of the time. There will be small bursts of 2.95, long stretches of 0.00, etc. All the while the pkg_add progress meter stays at 0%. tmux shows “1:ftp-”

22:44 **kensanata**

Networking doesn’t seem to work as expected. Any ideas of what I could be checking?

22:49 **kensanata**

I just tried wget ${PKG_PATH}emacs-22.3p0.tgz and it took forever to log in. Then the progress bar appeared, and I had a few bursts of 20K/s rapidly dropping to 0, climbing back up, dropping back to 0...

22:49 **kensanata**

And this is for ftp://mirror.swich.ch/ – the same country I’m in.

22:50 **kensanata**

ETA for the ca. 20MB is over 40 mintes.

22:51 **kensanata**

My Mac Mini is on the same wireless network. Just for kicks I’m trying the same thing. Already I have over 60% of the file!

22:51 **kensanata**

Done. All 21MB saved.

22:51 **kensanata**

Grrrrr. Something is VERY wrong with this laptop.

ftp://mirror.swich.ch/

Han* asked me some questions regarding ifconfig and netstat -nr – I pasted the results on a pastebot. ¹

Other people with the same problem. ² When I ping 10.0.1.1 – my router – I get more than 20% packet loss (sometimes over 70% packet loss) if I run a large CVS checkout in the background.

It turns out that *disabling WPA encryption solves my problem*! ³ 🙁

I’m back to OpenWLAN for the moment.

Hm... I’m not so sure. It worked fine for a bit, but suddenly I’m no longer sure. Gaaaah, this sucks balls. Big, hairy balls! >{

Update*: Downloading **ubuntu-9.10-desktop-powerpc.iso** – I just want to see whether it will work correctly or not. I saw various messages online saying that it worked! ⁴ ⁵ ⁶ ⁷

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