upgrading to 22.04 kills firefox

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:45 AM Bob <accessys at smart.net> wrote:
>
> been using Kubuntu for many years and decided to upgrade from 20.04 to
> 22.04 and got a new blank hard drive downloaded (on different computer) a
> live DVD and started the install, everything went as expected until I
> rebooted at the end and firefox was missing. in fact any access to the
> internet was missing.
>     have heard "things" about "snap" but my first experience with it that I
> know of.   but have a fully functional, 22.04LTS on my new hard drive with
> no access to the internet via any means.  anyone got a workaround.  tried
> to download it to the harddrive from the web via the live DVD but it
> wouldn't write to the hard drive, and when I finally did get it written a
> reboot failed to load it.   (tried midori with same results)
>
> hard to download something from web if one cannot access the web
>
> ????

Use a USB to ethernet adapter for the initial network setup. You will
likely be able to update and upgrade.

If your network does not come up with an update and upgrade, then
switch to the hwe kernel. That's the latest supported kernel for
Ubuntu. It will be something like 6.1 or 6.2. It may have support for
your hardware.

You can install the hwe kernel with:

    # apt-get install linux-generic-hwe-22.04

Jeff