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Background - I was originally trying to resolve the issue of Question - No audio in laptop speakers or headphones, but sound plays in screen (HDMI connection), I suspected kernel update and with the help from comments in Question - In the package logs, what are the kernel updates listed as?, I was able to discern kernel version I wanted to try booting into to see if the issue is resolved.

Right now, I have managed to install the kernels for specific version by installing appropriate linux-image(s) and the linux-header(s) only, but when I do boot using these kernels from the GRUB menu, the OS can not find my WiFi Adaptor, and for the sound it shows "Dummy Output". I installed 3 kernels on top of the existing one, and this issue is happening with them all.

Am I missing a crucial step or detail here?

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  • Did you also install linux-generic?
    – chili555
    May 29, 2020 at 1:07
  • I'm having a similar issue. I have been using Ubuntu 18.04 on this laptop since I got it in 2018. Yesterday suddenly this no sound problem and only Dummy Output shown as the only option for device under sound output in settings. But I still had wifi yesterday and now that is gone too, showing "no wifi adapter found" in settings. I'm not really a tech person, would really appreciate a simple easy to follow solution for whatever weird malady is affecting my system.
    – Pema
    May 14, 2022 at 20:41
  • You know what resolved it for me in the end - installing all updates. I was running dual boot with Windows. I went ahead and installed every update that I had been ignoring - windows, bios, and ubuntu. Something in there just fixed it.
    – Sunanda
    May 15, 2022 at 2:20

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I have managed to install the kernels for specific version by installing appropriate linux-image(s) and the linux-header(s) only

In order to get the required kernel modules; that is drivers for wireless, ethernet and many more, you also needed to install linux-modules-xxx-generic as well as linux-modules-extra-xxx-generic, where xxx is the kernel version that you installed. Find out with the terminal command:

uname -r

It appears that this step was missed.

If you installed these kernels from the preferred Ubuntu repositories, you can go here and find the debs to install: https://packages.ubuntu.com/

If you installed these kernels from Ubuntu mainline, for example, here: https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v5.6/ then you will notice that there is, in addition to linux-image and linux-headers, a package called linux-modules. Wireless, ethernet and many other drivers are included.

If you installed these kernels from some other source, please specify so that we may help you further.

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  • Thank you. The linux-modules-xxx-generic was already installed, I found out when I tried to, but linux-modules-extra-xxx-generic, I had to install. After I did, the wifi is working the sound is still not. I think you are right about what I missed. Do you know which particular package I might have missed to install for the audio drivers?
    – Sunanda
    May 29, 2020 at 16:55
  • Not without knowing what sound device you have. sudo lshw -C multimedia Have you tried selecting a different output device in Settings > Sound?
    – chili555
    May 29, 2020 at 20:17

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