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Connected to Wi-Fi, Firefox cannot load pages, only some downloads though apt-get are working
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I installed Linux mint on my Lenovo X131e and installing updates has been problematic. Initially I thought only Firefox was not “getting internet” but looking at the apt-get messages it appears even that is having issues.
I have never been much a Linux user since the mid90s. But have used it off and on.
I am going to be using this in my game shop to display stuff on my monitors around the shop, mostly event codes and event standings for Magic the gathering (this uses a webpage from wizards). And to play music.
If you can ping your local router with no dropped packets, your local network is probably fine
If you can't ping 1.1.1.1, then there is an issue between your router and the Internet. Look at the output of mtr to see if/where there is packet loss
If you can ping 1.1.1.1, but not www.google.com then your issue may be DNS. Verify your DNS server IPs
*If you don't know your router's IP, try 'route -n' and the default gateway should be the non 0.0.0.0 entry under the Gateway column, usually it's in the first line
I ended up having to not use the Broadcom wifi adapter drivers, even doing that was unstable and had to switch to a wired connection. Thank you for all of the information.