Ubuntu – WIreless connects but Internet stops working on Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit and Broadcom 4313

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I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 64 Bit on a HP Pavilion dm4. It has a Broadcom 4313 Wireless Adapter and a Realtek RTL8168D/8111D Ethernet Adapter.

I haven't been able to get consistent internet access from either the wireless or wired connection. On startup, or after restarting the router, I am able to load a couple of websites, but after that the internet stops working (though the wirless/ethernet continue to indicate that they are connected). Strangely, I am still able to do things with the websites I have already loaded – for example, loading/sending messages in gmail. It's just loading certain new websites that is the issue. Also, I still see available wireless networks.

This the relevant output from lspci -v:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 1469
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 42
    I/O ports at 2000 [size=256]
    Memory at c0404000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Memory at c0400000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: r8168
    Kernel modules: r8168

03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 145c
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
    Memory at c2400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: <access denied>
    Kernel driver in use: wl
    Kernel modules: wl, bcma, brcmsmac

I've tried blacklisting the different wireless drivers, but nothing seems to work, even if I try to force it to use the brcmsmac driver, which I've read elsewhere should be the correct one. For the ethernet, I also tried installing the latest driver (r8168 instead of r8169) and blacklisting the old one.

I'm dual booting windows 7 on the same laptop, but have no issues with either the wireless or ethernet connections.

Best Answer

Your problem apears to be with the network stack and not with the drivers.

Most problems I had were with name resolution try pinging a known site to check if name resolves ok.

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