It was more of a hardware maintenance issue than a kernel driver issue.
Opening the back laptop cover, removing the mini PCI-E WLAN WiFi board and
firmly re-seating it solved the problem. Also took the opportunity to blow
dry (without the heater element) all the dust inside the laptop.
On Fri,
The output of the "wireless-info" script when wireless disconnects then
becomes "hardware disabled" is pasted below.
## wireless info START ##
Report from: 08 Apr 2016 14:21 EAT +0300
Booted last: 08 Apr 2016 13:58 EAT +0300
Script from: 27 Sep 2015 00:34 UTC +
#
Greetings.
I'm running Jessie on an Acer Aspire 5745DG laptop with a Broadcom
BCM43225 wireless chip. Wireless LAN has always worked flawlessly
until recently when it started disconnecting abruptly, showing not
connected, hardware disabled then disappearing from Network Manager.
The laptop only
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