No wifi adapter found and kernel problem [duplicate]

The simplest way to display your Grub is to press and hold the SHIFT button while booting.

As an alternative, you can always display Grub without it booting any particular kernel:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/grub

change GRUB_TIMEOUT to -1 and comment out GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT

finish off by running

sudo update-grub

Holding down the shift key while booting, will display the Grub menu. You can now select an older kernel version.

For selecting an older kernel as the default kernel, please see this post


If you have a few Kernels in your system you can set manually what Kernel version will start:

  1. Reboot your PC with pressed Shift button for display GRUB after BIOS will start. You will see something like: GRUB start page

  2. Select "Advanced options for Ubuntu" and memorize index of this menu line(count starts from 0) On the picture index is 1

Select concrete Kernel

  1. Select concrete kernel for boot and also memorize index of this menu line(count starts from 0) On the picture index of chosen Kernel is 2

  2. Start system. This action is for one boot on concrete kernel. If you want to start from concrete Kernel all time you should do next steps:

4.1. Open and edit GRUB setup file:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

4.2. Find line GRUB_DEFAULT=...(by default GRUB_DEFAULT=0) and sets in quotes menu path to concrete Kernel(Remember menu indexes from steps 2 and 3). In my system first index was 1 and second was 2. I set in to GRUB_DEFAULT

GRUB_DEFAULT="1>2"

Save file.

4.3. Update GRUB information for apply changes:

sudo update-grub

4.4. After reboot you automatically boot on Kernel by chosen menu path. An example on my machine 1 -> 2

4.5. Check Kernel version after reboot:

uname -r


While booting when GRUB appears with entries select the second entry i.e., Advanced options for Ubuntu there you can see different older kernel versions which was installed previously, you can select one among them which works good for you. Otherwise you go to the grub.cfg and paste your required kernel version on top of currently installed kernel entry. In both ways it works


Please install the previous kernel with the following command:

sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic

Then reboot. You will be prompted to choose your kernel.