On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 5:08 PM Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 11/15/19 1:18 PM, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > > 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. > ... > > 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". One last question, if you don't mind... I'm wondering who/what creates linux-modules adn linux-modules-extras. I would not be surprised if the kernel's scripts created a rpm by default. (But I would be surprised to learn it created, say, Pacman packages). Does the kernel's build scripts perform any packaging? Or is it left to a distro? Jeff _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
