linux-modules-extra

[Duncan Brown]

On 14/03/2021 16:00, Robbi Nespu wrote:
> On 3/14/21 11:19 PM, Duncan Brown wrote:
>> Hello All
>>
>> Any ideas why since the update to the 5.8 kernel on 20.04.2 LTS I've 
>> had to manually install linux-modules-extra each time?
>>
>> Each update (5.8.0-42-generic, 5.8.0-43-generic and now 
>> 5.8.0-44-generic I've rebooted to no network adapter, and then have 
>> to drop back a kernel version and manually apt install 
>> linux-modules-extra-5.8.0-XX-generic
>>
>> thanks
>
> Maybe you are missing linux-generic* package?
> https://askubuntu.com/questions/1265137/avoid-missing-kernel-linux-modules-extra-xx-generic-when-updating-kernel 
>
>
Looks like I was missing the linux-generic-hwe-20.04 meta package as 
mentioned in that link. The update to 5.8 came through a regular apt 
upgrade so not sure why the meta package wasnt upgraded along with it.

Either way, thanks both, that should fix it by the look of things