Hi, My wifi connection drops randomly. It can sometimes run for days. Other times it may drop within hours of a reboot. There seems to be no pattern to when. Initially rebooting seemed to be the only way to get the network back. Under xfce4 disabling the wifi and/or network, then re-enabling them had no effect. After many google searches I finally found at:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/26054/how-to-restart-wifi-interface-without-rebooting-it-drops-connection I now have the alias(zsh): alias reload_network_module='sudo modprobe -r iwldvm && sudo modprobe iwldvm' to re-enable the wifi. So far this has restored the network connection without having to reboot. Strange as it may seem, the wifi connection has stopped dropping as frequently since reloading the iwldvm module this way.?? FWIW /etc/os-release: PRETTY_NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux 4 (chimaera)" NAME="Devuan GNU/Linux" VERSION_ID="4" VERSION="4 (chimaera)" VERSION_CODENAME="chimaera" ID=devuan ID_LIKE=debian HOME_URL="https://www.devuan.org/"; SUPPORT_URL="https://devuan.org/os/community"; BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.devuan.org/"; /etc/debian_version: 11.1 Computer: ThinkPad X230 *-pci:1 description: PCI bridge product: 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 1c.1 bus info: pci@0000:00:1c.1 version: c4 width: 32 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master cap_list configuration: driver=pcieport resources: irq:17 memory:f1c00000-f1cfffff *-network description: Wireless interface product: Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] vendor: Intel Corporation physical id: 0 bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0 logical name: wlan0 version: 34 serial: "redacted" width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.10.0-10-amd64 firmware=18.168.6.1 6000g2a-6.ucode ip=192.168.0.102 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 resources: irq:29 memory:f1c00000-f1c01fff % ls /lib/modules/**/iwldvm.ko /lib/modules/5.10.0-10-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/iwldvm.ko /lib/modules/5.10.0-9-amd64/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/dvm/iwldvm.ko Not sure if this is a hardware or software or firmware issue. No other devices/systems are having this issue on the same wifi network. If anyone has any advice it would be appreciated. Since I have a workaround it is just an annoyance. Regards, Jim Murphy
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