Fedora 35 - intermittent wifi inaccessibility [wifi adapter not found]

I recently installed Fedora 35 (kernel 5.16) alongside Windows 10. Wifi adapter is Intel 8265.

When I boot up Fedora, sometimes the wireless options are completely gone and with dmesg | grep iwl I get:

I installed the firmware but to no avail.

Already tried:

• bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php

• askubuntu.com/questions/1259387/wifi-ad...20-04-dmesg-grep-iwl-fails-to-wake-nic

• ask.fedoraproject.org/t/iwlwifi-firmware-missing-in-linux-firmware/16516

• ask.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-33-does-not-recognise-wifi-of-laptop/11399/6