Since Ubuntu 8.04 aka Hardy Heron, I've had issues
with every new release. As Ubuntu evolves into being a viable
desktop OS alternative, its complexity has been growing and with
the new and improved looks new challenges arise. This bug in
particular has been very difficult to diagnose and I can't
imagine anyone without enough Linux experience to overcome it on
their own, so I decided to summarize the steps I took to fix it
... and vent my frustration at the end.
The SymptomI came across the issue for the first time while
trying Ubuntu's Karmic Netbook remix. After overcoming the
typical Broadcom wifi driver, Network Manager would
connect, but Firefox would fail to load the web pages 90%
of the time. Using ping in the command line worked just
fine. Maybe I needed to update the software packages to get the
latest patches, surprise, apt-get was having similar
problems and timing out. So the problem …
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14
2010
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