No Wifi Access After Resume From Sleep on Linux

i’ve recently been having problems with my WiFi connection after my laptop comes out of sleep mode. After resuming, the NetworkManager looks like the connection is OK, but nothing on the network is accessible. I did a little searching and found out there are some known problems with some WiFi drivers not dealing with the resume properly. If you unload the kernel module before suspending and load it again after resuming, everything works fine.

I used lspci to find out the name of the WiFi adapter:

Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6205 (Taylor Peak - rev 96)

Then I used lsmod | grep wifi to figure out which module controls the WiFi adapter. It ended up being iwldvm for my Lenovo Thnkpad Carbon X1 Gen 1.

You can see all the related modules below:

mark@localhost:~$ lsmod | grep iwldvm
iwldvm                274432  0
iwlwifi               323584  1 iwldvm
mac80211              974848  1 iwldvm
cfg80211              835584  3 iwldvm,iwlwifi,mac80211

To automate the unload/load of the kernel module, create a file named /lib/systemd/system-sleep/iwldvm.sh

Add the following to the file:

#!/bin/sh

# /lib/systemd/system-sleep/iwldvm.sh

# Unloads and loads wifi driver before and after sleep.
# This prevents the problem where the network is not
# available after resume.

case $1 in
    pre)
        modprobe -r iwldvm
        ;;
    post)
        modprobe iwldvm
        ;;
esac

sudo chmod 755 /lib/systemd/system-sleep/iwldvm.sh

This was on Fedora 31 with kernel 5.3.16.