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.
- ping or mtr your router and verify there are no dropped packets (ex: ping 192.168.0.1 or mtr 192.168.0.1 where 192.168.0.1 is your router’s IP)
- ping or mtr a public IP (ex: Cloudflare’s DNS server: ping 1.1.1.1)
- ping or mtr a fqdn (ping www.google.com)
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.
Can you ping IPs (like your router or 1.1.1.1)? Do you have the same behavior over ethernet?
Also, might be silly bit I’ve been fooled by this more once, have you tested other devices have access to the internet and the specific sites you’re testing with aren’t down?
Ping is not working, I cannot even ping the router. All of my other devices have internet. I am thinking it is either my T-Mobile business internet, or the old laptop not working well with 5ghz.
However, when I did a live usb boot it was working okay.
