So I dug out my 5+ year old netbook, and updated the Ubuntu to release 14.04 (from 10.04) and now it can see the wireless connection and it says it connects to it, but it does not load any pages in the browser, nor does it load the router's site either. I can connect via ethernet.

Please note that I'm a linux newb, I only know to post these commands from googling this problem and seeing that other people posted them - please let me know if there's anything else I should post as well, and if you could explain solutions like I'm a 5-year-old, it'd probably help out a lot!

Solutions I've already tried:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install firmware-b43-installer

sudo iwconfig

wlan0 IEEE 802.11abg ESSID:"aterm-f78fa8-g" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: 10:66:82:4D:34:DC Bit Rate=26 Mb/s Tx-Power=200 dBm Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality=70/70 Signal level=-22 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt: 0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 lo no wireless extensions eth0 no wireless extensions

sudo lspci -v

05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adaptor (rev 01) Subsystem: Askey Computer Corp. Device 7179 Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16 Memory at f0100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) {size=16K] Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3 Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information: Len=78 <?> Capabilities: [48] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+ Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00 Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 00-00-9f-ff-ff-52-b4-74 Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting <?> Kernel driver in use: wl

sudo lshw -c network