Wired Ethernet not working Ubuntu 18.04

Solution 1:

I had my network card get disabled after this morning's Ubuntu update. Rebooting the machine in Win10 the network card still works, so it's an Ubuntu configuration.

The way I solved it was the following:

sudo lshw -C network

This listed the "logical name" values:

logical name: enp8s0
logical name: docker0
logical name: enp0s29f7u7c4i2

I have a Dell T7400, so I know the device is a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5754. Dell support provides no Ubuntu drivers, but you don't really need one. Somehow my ethernet device name was renamed.

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

Add the logical name to the end of the file:

auto enp8s0
iface enp8s0 inet dhcp

Finally, turn the interface on:

sudo ifup enp8s0

Solution 2:

I tried the solutions above and they did not work.

What worked for me was disabling wifi using the network icon on the upper right corner of Ubuntu's GUI then restarting the network manager using :

service network-manager restart

I think that having a working wired connection cable that is plugged-in and a connected wlan card to a wifi network at the same time creates a conflict.