On 11/15/19 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > 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. Hi Jeffrey, The best course of action here would be to file a bug on Ubuntu's bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux Your instinct is correct though. The most common modules that aren't built-in to the kernel (i.e., compiled as CONFIG_BLAH=y) are in the linux-modules package. There's a good chance your driver (should be) in there. The linux-modules-extras are basically "everything else". Please do file a bug on launchpad as I do think distro-related support is a little off-topic for this mailing list. - Connor _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
