Which package typically includes network controller drivers

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

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.

Thanks in advance

$ apt-cache search 5.0.0-36 | grep generic | cut -f 1 -d ' '
linux-buildinfo-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-cloud-tools-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-headers-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-image-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-image-unsigned-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-modules-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-modules-extra-5.0.0-36-generic
linux-tools-5.0.0-36-generic