Network gone after first step

[taraskuzyk]

Just ran into an issue after following the first step. I'm on 24.04 LTS.

sudo apt-get remove --purge '^nvidia-.*'
sudo apt autoremove
reboot

After that my network interface was completely gone (ip a only showed docker and the loopback). Not sure what happened or how it could have happened. Any clue on what I can do to check what could have caused this?

To resolve I followed the same resolution as this redditor described (they were also messing with Nvidia drivers, perhaps from this guide too?)

[oddmario]

Hello,

I'm not sure why this happened, but since you referenced a Reddit comment which shows the same problem, then I guess purging the Nvidia packages breaks the networking configuration? (although this really shouldn't happen)

also I doubt that the person from Reddit got this problem from this guide because the comment was made 3 years ago when this guide was published here only a year ago

I will update the guide to ensure that ubuntu-drivers-common always gets installed in case it's missing :)

Thank you so much for reporting this!