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Re:A Nouveau graphics driver update by michaelmrose on Friday December 01, 2023 @05:58PM (#38493753)
It seems likely that in the course of installing your gpu driver via your package manager you installed additional updates that effected other functionality. It is plainly impossible for your GPU driver to effect your wifi.

Its been painless to install closed source nvidia drivers for 20 years so long as your distro provides a package.

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Re:A Nouveau graphics driver update by MadnessASAP on Friday December 01, 2023 @07:19PM (#38494443)
I can think of a dozen ways for a GPU driver to affect Wireless NIC. They're both kernel mode so good ol' fashioned SW bugs is a start. Then you could have bad firmware tables causing one driver to trample on the wrong device. All the way too the GPU interfering directly on the bus.
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Re:A Nouveau graphics driver update by michaelmrose on Friday December 01, 2023 @10:59PM (#38495751)
If this was so you would be able to trivially reproduce in 60 seconds by rebooting with the in kernel driver in place of the NVIDIA driver. Then you can write a blog post exploring the nature of a bug as likely as you finding out you were the secret love child of Elon Musk and the direct descendant of the Lindbergh baby.
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