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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.

EDIT: From this question network not working updating to kernel 5.8 ubuntu 20.04, I have tried all the answers under it by updating the kernel through the terminal but didn't resolve the issue. That's the reason why I asked a new one.

Ajay
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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
Ajay
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I did have network problems after kernel upgrade.

This answer helped me.

  1. Find your current kernel version using uname -a:
Linux desktop 6.8.0-41-generic
  1. Load into previous kernel (where nework works) using GRUB. (For me it was 6.8.0-31-generic)
  2. Install missing linux-modules-extra for your new kernel:
sudo apt-get install linux-modules-extra-6.8.0-41-generic
  1. Reboot into new kernel.
James Bond
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