I can't be more specific about my machine's details. It''s an old-ish, refurbished deal I got at a warehouse electronics store... let's say that.

Anyhow, the important details are as follows:
[*] I'm running Solyd K (see http://solydxk.com) : "SolydK is a Debian based distribution with the KDE desktop."
[*] My Graphics card is an Intel Mobile GM965 series. Please refer to:

http://forums.solydxk.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4755

- which is my unresolved topic on my distro's forums. It will have pertinent details regarding my booting issues & specific Graphics Card info.

Please ask me any other questions and I will try to answer them.

My goal: Via recovery mode SSH, identify the old driver I was using, locate it, re-set it as primary driver, recover comp.

For network have you tried
For Xorg