That thought crossed my mind, but I was hoping it would fix it. After I set the locale/timezone and my date and time were correct, I could correctly curl kernel.org, it just failed before it even got to the linux-firmware package. I’m not sure why. Maybe I can figure out how to modify the timeout, since I was able to manually initialize the keyring and update/upgrade packages without an error. Or, I should just figure out what exactly I need to do, to mimic the gui setup itself and run everything from a terminal.
Thank you for your reply and apologies for getting back so late. I usually browse old.lemmy.world on my phone, and for some reason it didn’t show your comment. I tried curling kernel.org, and the handshake was successful this time around. I, also, ended up setting my locale/timezone, so all of the timestamps were current. But, it ended up failing while upgrading a package before it even got to linux-firmware. I’m not that linux savvy, so maybe I should just wait for a new release.