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Ajay
Asked: 2024-06-04 14:53:58 +0800 CST

Internet not working after updating drivers

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I updated my Nvidia Driver on my Ubuntu 24.04 using the command:

sudo ubuntu-drivers install

because it was stuck on "Continue using a manually installed driver", and all other options were greyed out.

After updating I didn't choose any drivers thinking that the system would choose the driver and restart the system. After restarting, the internet option isn't available in the control panel and the settings menu. I have connected to the internet through Ethernet cable but still, the internet isn't working.

Control-panel

Settings-menu

Now the system is using the "X.Org X server" driver which is shown in the Additional Drivers window:

additional-driver-window

I uninstalled the Nvidia drivers using the command sudo apt remove --purge nvidia* and restarted, but no use. Since there is no internet, I cannot download new drivers to fix this issue.

drivers

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I couldn't find any fix but on a lot of searching, I found that I could boot into the previous kernel.

    Restarted the system and from the grub menu -> Advanced Settings for Ubuntu, I chose the previous kernel (in my case it was 6.8.0-31-generic) and booted into my system

    Now I could connect to the internet so I upgraded my system using apt.

    sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade
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