[CentOS] Intel Wireless 3160 adapter misbehaving

Sun Nov 10 14:36:59 UTC 2019
Patrick DERWAEL <patrick at derwael.be>

Hi folks

I'm having some hard time troubleshooting a Wifi issue

Centos7, fully up to date, with an Intel Dual Band 3160 Wireless adapter
After the machine boots, the Wifi connects and runs ok for a few hours
After this, the Wifi just stops


[root at orbex ~]# lspci -v | grep Wireless
04:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless 3160 (rev 83)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless AC 3160
[root at orbex ~]# grep iwlwifi messages
Nov 10 03:44:02 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Error sending
SCAN_OFFLOAD_REQUEST_CMD: enqueue_hcmd failed: -5
Nov 10 03:44:02 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Scan failed! ret -5
Nov 10 03:44:02 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Failed to wake NIC for
hcmd

100s of similar lines

Nov 10 14:55:01 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Failed to wake NIC for
hcmd
Nov 10 14:55:01 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Error sending
SCAN_OFFLOAD_REQUEST_CMD: enqueue_hcmd failed: -5
Nov 10 14:55:01 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Scan failed! ret -5
Nov 10 14:56:37 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: loaded firmware version
17.3216344376.0 op_mode iwlmvm
Nov 10 14:56:37 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: Detected Intel(R) Dual
Band Wireless AC 3160, REV=0x164
Nov 10 14:56:37 orbex kernel: iwlwifi 0000:04:00.0: base HW address:
34:de:1a:f0:c2:fb
Nov 10 14:56:38 orbex NetworkManager[1154]: <info>  [1573394198.8523]
rfkill1: found Wi-Fi radio killswitch (at
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.3/0000:04:00.0/ieee80211/phy0/rfkill1)
(driver iwlwifi)
[root at orbex log]#

Any advice?

Thanks!

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