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New to linux, installed Ubuntu but have issues every restart. (piefed.social)

submitted 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) by Cherry@piefed.social to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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As above switched to Linux and i am enjoying it i picked Ubuntu as TBH it was the first I came across. The last two times it has prompted me to update has caused a drama. First would only give me a black screen of text so I did a reinstall.

The latest one went fine it updated to 6.17.0-94 but i lost all networking no wifi By the looks of it the problem I have is i have an older device that has nvidia 580 graphics card. I have rolled back for now but questions are;

Is there a way to pre-emt this, as i feel now as soon as i restart it will jump back up and leave me without networking to resolve. its quite a faff trying to find out what to do on my mobile and typing it in the terminal.

Is it better to fix or try another distro?

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[–] Cherry@piefed.social 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

Not altered anything just saw the pop up for update now...which i did and all looked to be fine, aside from the no networking.

I tried the install extras option and that's when i got the 580 errors. I might be wrong that they are the problem.

[–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago

Also, do you NEED the Nvidia drivers? Are you gaming and trying to squeeze every last bit or is it just a display output? Cause if it's the latter the open source nouveau drivers will work just fine with that card.

[–] mumblerfish@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Ok. What exactly is not working with the network? Are you on wired or wireless? If you do run ip a, does your interfaces show up?

Another thing to look at is journalctl -b. Look for errors, lines in red, anything about the network. If you can roll back to a functioning boot (or run journalctl -b -1 should show the previous boot) and compare to that is probably a good idea, journald (displayed by that command) may contain errors that are not relevant, so comparing to a functioning boot may be good.

Also, depending on how old your computer it, there may be another hdmi output which uses the GPU integrated to your CPU. If that is the case, you could switch to it if the nvidia card stops working just to troubleshoot, take a look at journalctl -b and look for errors again. If the screen just goes black, and does not boot, this may also give you some messages as to why the nvidia graphics is not coming up.