#Mouse & Wifi Adapter drivers suddenly died?

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weak arch
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After installing the latest version of mint, cinnamon edition 21.3 (according to my brother), my mouse and wireless adapter suddenly died on me.

I installed only 3 things from the software manger? Where you get your apps from? Opera, Discord, and Steam. Didn't open em up or anything. I went to open steam, and it said my net was out. So I checked the net, and thought clicking the bubble "Enable Wireless" off then on would work, but it wouldn't even let me turn it back on so it has to be driver issues.

The mouse just stops moving. Not sure if it even clicks, and the wireless adapter refuses to turn on. I don't know how linux mint works at all, not sure if there's keyboard shortcuts to a "task manager" like on windows to close out of windoes, nor do I know how to navigate without a mouse.

Nothing I've read online has any of the same issues or fixes

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The mouse works, but only until you move it for 1 second. Then it clicks off

naive swan
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@weak arch hello. is this on a desktop pc?

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and is there an external USB hub involved?

weak arch
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Desktop, and I think? Wireless mouse, wireless adapter, keyboard, it's all usb