Wifi sometimes dies, I can't get it back up (21.10)

I am having a problem similar to this question: Losing Wifi on 12.04, no way to get it back?

On a machine where the problem doesn't manifest with windows and even in other machines, my wifi just randmly dies multiple times a day. there is no warning, sometimes it works for hours, sometimes in minutes but eventually it is guaranteed to happen. Wether the machine is iddle or working doesn't matter.

lspci output:

6:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless 7260 [8086:08b1] (rev bb)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 [8086:4070]
    Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi
    Kernel modules: iwlwifi, wl

The only way I have found to fix it is rebooting. I have also tried resetting the network manager with systemctl but that doesn't fix it.

The wifi dying is not that much of an issue, but having to reboot to fix it is a chore, is there a way to emulate restarting the computer but only in so far as the wifi/network adapters are concerned? just so that I don't have to re-open every program I am using.

Windows

• boot into Windows
• open the Power control panel
• choose change what the power buttons do
• choose change options that are unavailable
• uncheck fast startup
• close the Power control panel
• open an administrative command prompt window
• type powercfg /h off
• type chkdsk /f c:
• approve to run chkdsk at next reboot
• reboot into Windows to let chkdsk run on drive C:

Ubuntu file system check

• boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB in “Try Ubuntu” mode
• open a terminal window by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T
• type sudo fdisk -l
• identify the /dev/sdXX device name for your "Linux Filesystem"
• type sudo fsck -f /dev/sdXX, replacing sdXX with the number you found earlier
• repeat the fsck command if there were errors
• type reboot

BIOS

• Make sure that Secure Boot is disabled.

Then reboot into Ubuntu and retest.