Only one simple advice, take a deep breath, maybe you have this installed: https://xkcd.com/2659/
Sorry for the noise


------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, August 16th, 2022 at 13:26, Jim Murphy via Dng <dng@???> wrote:


> 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