Comment by dhoe

I love this sort of insane-sounding problem descriptions. Here's one that happened to me: WiFi disconnects when I visit Gmail, and doesn't reconnect until I reboot Linux. Cause: Gmail's chat thingy uses Flash, which for some reason does some webcam initialization, which triggers a bug (in combination with crappy hardware) in the uvcvideo kernel module which leads to a timeout which leads to the whole USB bus going down. Which includes the WiFi chip.