All drivers stopped working on Linux Mint 19.3
by rjo98 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#5120R)
I'll preface this with I'm short on details, but here's what I know. My friend took an old laptop, loaded Linux Mint 19.3 from a live usb, he checked for updates but a few failed.
So later after rebooting, it now can't find the graphics drivers, the wireless card drivers, plugging a network cable into the port doesn't work for internet access, and no USB drives will mount (even though they mount on his Windows PC and mounted on this before previously, even the live usb won't while booted in this LM install).
Kinda sounds like all drivers or something with the kernel went south? He can still boot of the live USB when he starts the computer. If he goes into driver manager it just tells him to connect to the internet or insert the live USB, neither of which he can do.
I'm honestly at a loss for what to tell him to try, and I know the details he provided are minimal. Is he completely screwed and just needs to wipe and freshly install LM?
So later after rebooting, it now can't find the graphics drivers, the wireless card drivers, plugging a network cable into the port doesn't work for internet access, and no USB drives will mount (even though they mount on his Windows PC and mounted on this before previously, even the live usb won't while booted in this LM install).
Kinda sounds like all drivers or something with the kernel went south? He can still boot of the live USB when he starts the computer. If he goes into driver manager it just tells him to connect to the internet or insert the live USB, neither of which he can do.
I'm honestly at a loss for what to tell him to try, and I know the details he provided are minimal. Is he completely screwed and just needs to wipe and freshly install LM?