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everyone, I messed up my RPI4B's wifi and networking software. BAD.

Long story short , I followed a bunch of guides on how to host and connect to a wifi network at the same time (ethernet - acces point as WiFi router/repeater, optional with bridge), as well as how to host a wifi network and get a ethernet/wifi bridge running (Turn your raspberry pi 3 into a wifi hotspot)

Both of these guides, I followed to the letter, and now, the networking and WiFi drivers are a tangled mess of packages that have nothing to do with each other. (for example: I accidently set up two ethernet/wifi bridges!). I want it back to normal, because my project didn't work (and I want it organised, so it isn't a hodgepodge of random packages!) The problem is that I have no idea how to revert it back to normal!

I guess my question in whole is this: how were the RPI's networking drivers set up at factory default, and how do I get them back that way?

Here is my OS version data, I just used the "full-upgrade" command, today.

~ $ cat /etc/os-release

PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye)" NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="11" VERSION="11 (bullseye)" VERSION_CODENAME=bullseye ID=raspbian ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/" SUPPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianForums" BUG_REPORT_URL="http://www.raspbian.org/RaspbianBugs"

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Unfortunately Ingo's tutorials tell users to delete "unnecessary" network components so it is not possible to "get them back" (at least until you have a working network).

If you want to persist with systemd-networkd the simplified tutorial explains one method to setup Basic networking using systemd-networkd

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