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From: Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com>
To: kernelnewbies <kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org>
Subject: Which package typically includes network controller drivers
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 16:18:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH8yC8kmvaySVoOA6E6hpbjBgodkp9TUR_m7HhQ9GoaM18_whg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Hi Everyone,

My apologies if this one is off-topic.

I recently encountered a bad apt update using Ubuntu. The 5.0.0-36
kernel was installed, but it was missing network card drivers. I tried
to modprobe the network card drivers but they were missing.

I was able to recover by standing up a VM, copying the *.deb files
from /var/cache/apt/archive, sneaker netting to the wounded machine,
and then manually re-installing the packages.

My question is, which package typically includes the network card
drivers? I believe the choices are
linux-modules or linux-modules-extras.

Thanks in advance

$ apt-cache search 5.0.0-36 | grep generic | cut -f 1 -d ' '
linux-buildinfo-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-cloud-tools-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-headers-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-image-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-modules-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-tools-5.0.0-36-generic

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             reply	other threads:[~2019-11-15 21:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-15 21:18 Jeffrey Walton [this message]
2019-11-15 22:08 ` Which package typically includes network controller drivers Connor Kuehl
2019-11-15 23:25   ` Jeffrey Walton
2019-11-16  2:24     ` Connor Kuehl

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