Hi Takashi, thanks for your extremely helpful and polite response as always. I think I'll try renaming the iwlwifi-6000g2a-6.ucode.xz for now. Hopefully I'll notice a difference after a few long days of work, this bug is just random enough so as to make troubleshooting difficult, but frequent enough to seriously interrupt important work. As for power management tweaks, I also suspected that could be a factor, as I use TLP which includes pretty aggressive power management tweaks across the board. Would you recommend anything in particular? I've seen recommendations for: > options iwlwifi 11n_disable=1 swcrypto=0 power_save=0 #also: 11n_disable=8 > options iwlmvm power_scheme=1 > options iwlwifi uapsd_disable=1 As well as: > options iwlwifi swcrypto=0 > options iwlwifi power_save=0 > options iwlmvm power_scheme=1 > options iwlwifi uapsd_disable=1 Or simply: > options iwlwifi power_save=0 I'm not sure about the 11n_disable option codes or if that has anything to do with this? There are indeed quite a few reports of this on bugzilla.kernel.org, should I add on to an existing report or open a new one? - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207409 - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205387 - https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208425