Randomly disappearing WIFI "hardware"

I got some crazy issues with my Gnome-Manjaro.
The WIFI hardware is randomly NOT recognized by the system. After several (random amount of) reboots it works.
With the parallel Win10 Install it is always recognized.
Anyone knows this issue?

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I’m having the exact same issue so I figured Id post here instead of making a new thread. To describe the issue a little further whenever the system goes into hibernate or is shut off the subsequent boot up shows that the “WIFI Hardware” has been deactivated and the network settings force Airplane Mode. For me personally ive found that just powering down and then bringing back up the system will fix the issue but the issue is still present.

Since it was requested by the ADMIN earlier ill post the information found running

$ inxi -Fazy

System:
  Kernel: 5.9.16-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0 
  parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.9-x86_64 
  root=UUID=a0dc96b7-4706-45c1-b187-b4ec3c70bbac ro quiet splash apparmor=1 
  security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3 
  Desktop: GNOME 3.38.2 tk: GTK 3.24.24 wm: gnome-shell 
  dm: GDM 3.38.2.1, LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Manjaro Linux 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Pavilion 15 Notebook PC 
  v: 0973120000405F10000620180 serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 
  serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 2293 v: 78.21 serial: <filter> UEFI: Insyde 
  v: F.36 date: 02/02/2015 
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 23.2 Wh condition: 36.5/36.5 Wh (100%) volts: 15.3/14.8 
  model: Hewlett-Packard Primary type: Li-ion serial: N/A status: Discharging 
CPU:
  Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-5200U bits: 64 type: MT MCP 
  arch: Broadwell family: 6 model-id: 3D (61) stepping: 4 microcode: 2F 
  L2 cache: 3 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 17566 
  Speed: 2253 MHz min/max: 500/2700 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 2253 2: 2249 
  3: 2518 4: 2406 
  Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported 
  Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
  Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable 
  Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
  Type: spec_store_bypass 
  mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
  Type: spectre_v1 
  mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, 
  IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling 
  Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode 
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 5500 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915 
  v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1616 
  Device-2: Suyin HP Truevision HD type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-3:2 
  chip ID: 064e:c341 serial: <filter> 
  Display: wayland server: X. org 1.20.10 compositor: gnome-shell driver: i915 
  note: n/a (using device driver) - try sudo/root display ID: 0 
  resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo> 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 5500 (BDW GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.3.1 
  direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel Broadwell-U Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:160c 
  Device-2: Intel Wildcat Point-LP High Definition Audio 
  vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
  chip ID: 8086:9ca0 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.9.16-1-MANJARO 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel Wireless 3160 driver: iwlwifi v: kernel port: 5040 
  bus ID: 08:00.0 chip ID: 8086:08b3 
  IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter> 
  Device-2: Realtek RTL810xE PCI Express Fast Ethernet vendor: Hewlett-Packard 
  driver: r8169 v: kernel port: 3000 bus ID: 09:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8136 
  IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 58.37 GiB (6.3%) 
  SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends 
  ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Toshiba model: MQ01ABD100 
  size: 931.51 GiB block size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s 
  serial: <filter> rev: 2C 
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw size: 931.22 GiB size: 915.6 GiB (98.32%) used: 58.37 GiB (6.4%) 
  fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) 
  used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 
Swap:
  Alert: No Swap data was found. 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 224 Uptime: 32m wakeups: 2 Memory: 7.7 GiB used: 2.62 GiB (34.1%) 
  Init: systemd v: 247 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 Packages: 1442 pacman: 1426 
  lib: 423 flatpak: 5 snap: 11 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: gnome-terminal 
  inxi: 3.2.01 

Hopefully this helps with regards to fixing the issue!.

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