Staudey Yes, I was up to date and working for several days. Things were working great. I then saw the hardware drivers program in the menu and it suggested installing the broadcom drivers. I've done this on other distros and it definitely improves wifi speeds.
Whatever it did was catastrophic. I had to manually repartition the disk to get the Solus installation program to even recognize the disk. I was a bit worried because I couldn't even get Fedora to install because to the disk issue.
I'm not a sophisticated user so much of this is a mystery to me.
My bad for not having a Timeshift backup. It was on my todo's.
So lesson learned. Leave well enough alone. The default wifi drivers work good enough. They seem about 30% slower than the broadcom drivers but I can live with that.
If there is something I can send in the way of dumps/info to help, let me know.
Love the OS. Sensible defaults, fast on my old hardware.