WiFi drivers suddenly disappear Ubuntu 18.04

Question

Upon installation of Ubuntu 18.04, I installed the WiFi drivers as per standard procedure from the "Software and Updates" interface and everything was working fine. All of a sudden, without any system update or anything of that sort I was unable to connect to the WiFi because of No WiFi adapter found (despite me having installed it already).

The WiFi is correctly switched on, everything seems to be in place: for instance

$ nmcli radio wifi
enabled

and

$ ifconfig
enp3s0f2: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        ether 30:65:ec:07:51:a7  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 0  bytes 0 (0.0 B)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

enx048705ea6058: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
        inet 192.168.0.224  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.0.255
        inet6 2a02:8109:9200:23cc:306f:334c:5f32:6f5f  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 2a02:8109:9200:23cc:c419:c684:822a:e929  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x0<global>
        inet6 fe80::83a1:2bfa:d8b2:7313  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
        ether 04:87:05:ea:60:58  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
        RX packets 4290  bytes 2741868 (2.7 MB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 4149  bytes 564683 (564.6 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING>  mtu 65536
        inet 127.0.0.1  netmask 255.0.0.0
        inet6 ::1  prefixlen 128  scopeid 0x10<host>
        loop  txqueuelen 1000  (Local Loopback)
        RX packets 873  bytes 70852 (70.8 KB)
        RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
        TX packets 873  bytes 70852 (70.8 KB)
        TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0

EDIT: Additional information resulting from wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info, as suggested in the comment below, can be found here

What can be the cause of the problem? How come, all of a sudden, the drivers seem not to be recognised anymore?

You need to provide more info, not just ifconfig output: https://askubuntu.com/questions/425155/my-wireless-wifi-connection-does-not-work-what-information-is-needed-to-diagnos. — mikewhatever, May 25 '18 at 19:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 25 '18 at 23:10

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I have found that re-installing the drivers works, for some reasons:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source

answered May 25 '18 at 23:10

gented

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It didn't work. I 'm still having trouble about disappeared wifi adapter in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. – Hasan Oct 16 '22 at 20:14

WiFi drivers suddenly disappear Ubuntu 18.04

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