It happened twice now in Fedora 41 spin KDE plasma, where my graphics drivers suddenly completely die. I don’t think I even have Nouveau. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the kernel modules system (akmods and such), but when rebooting after reinstalling, I now no longer have network either, even though I did a reboot after uninstalling them, which means I did have network to reinstall them with.
Can you give us errors, logs, terminal output etc?
journalctl -b -1
ip a
nmcli device status
Stuff displayed on boot
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Not sure what the correct way to upload logs is, but here’s a shared Proton Drive folder with them in it. Will this do?
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The OP has a problem with the nvidia driver this is a network debug list.
FYI ifconfig is deprecated and ip address will have reported most of what it does.
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Assuming you have the rpmfusion drivers installed it is important to allow akmods to build a new nvidia driver whe you do an update that updates the kernel.
FYI: the nouveau driver is built into the kernel so yes you have it.
Even if you reboot early the system should build the drivers as you boot up.
You can force the drivers to be built with
sudo akmods --rebuild --force
That should complete without error. This is what I see:
$ sudo akmods --rebuild --force
Checking kmods exist for 6.13.5-200.fc41.x86_64 [ OK ]
Building and installing nvidia-kmod [ OK ]
Then reboot and see if that fixes things.
I will try that rebuild command, thank you. About the network diagnostics, that is fair as both the graphic drivers and the network are dead now. That isn’t mentioned in the title of my original post, but it is mentioned in the rest of it.
Oh sorry, read to fast…
The command said it rebuilt the NVidia module, but rebooted and no effect. I just… how did I manage to break the network connection? 
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I booted to an old kernel via GRUB and Thankfully got network back, but there was this hang up with the login screen I’ve encountered before, so I just switched to TTY 2 and am running updates.
Something to note, I have a second monitor, and it is working with this old kernel but wasn’t with the broken one.
Good news, the second monitor and network are back. Bad news, still using software rendering.
Edit: Plasma had set itself to always use software rendering. Upon clicking the graphics card icon in the panel and changing that to “Automatic,” then logging out and back in to restart Plasma, it is systems normal, halleluJah! Thx for the encouragement and other info, will definitely use it another day, Goodbye!