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First up: I'm a total Ubuntu noob with some Unix background

Installed Ubuntu 18.04 (complete overwrite on a 32-bit machine) and then updated to 18.04.1 using a wifi extender with cabled connection into machine. Firefox works wonderfully this way.

Take cable out so it uses the Broadcom 802.11 BCM4321 and Firefox times out. In terminal can only ping IP addresses and not host names.

Tried installing winbind and changed /ect/nsswitch.conf to include wins but no luck.

It seems like this should be simple. What am I missing here?

ubfan1
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My problem has been solved with several comments from several contributors:

@GabrielaGarcia pointed me to Installing Broadcom Wireless Drivers

Then @ubfan1 suggested to try installing package libnss-resolve. The libnss-resolve adds to the /etc/nsswitch.conf file's hosts's line so it looks like:

hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] resolve [!UNAVAIL=return] dns myhostname

All is now working.