Recurrent no wifi adapter found + no bluetooth on MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG-035ES

First of all, I'm fully aware that similar questions have been answered in other places, but I have follow-up questions and other problems coming from this same question, that I have not seen answered anywhere.

The MSI GS66 Stealth 10UG-035ES has a Killer Wi-Fi 6 AX1650i (2*2 ax) + BT5 which does not work by default on Ubuntu 20.04.

Following the steps from the answer given by @cyrusbehr here, I was able to make wifi work using iwlwifi backport. But I still have a few issues:

  1. After booting on windows 10 it stops working again, and I need to execute sudo update-initramfs -u and restart, to get wifi working again. I do not have secure boot enabled, and now (after @Jeremy31 comment) I also don't have Windows hybrid shutdown enabled.
  2. Bluetooth is still not working
  3. The killer AX1650 card is actually not listed when executing ´sudo lshw -C network´
 *-network:0 descripción: Interfaz inalámbrica producto: Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] fabricante: Intel Corporation id físico: 14.3 información del bus: pci@0000:00:14.3 nombre lógico: wlp0s20f3 versión: 11 serie: 08:d2:3e:02:a3:2d anchura: 64 bits reloj: 33MHz capacidades: pm msi pciexpress msix bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless configuración: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=5.8.0-48-generic firmware=46.6bf1df06.0 9000-pu-b0-jf-b0- ip=192.168.1.128 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11 recursos: irq:16 memoria:f1130000-f1133fff *-network:1 descripción: Ethernet interface producto: Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V fabricante: Intel Corporation id físico: 1f.6 información del bus: pci@0000:00:1f.6 nombre lógico: enp0s31f6 versión: 11 serie: f8:0d:ac:47:83:53 capacidad: 1Gbit/s anchura: 32 bits reloj: 33MHz capacidades: pm msi bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt-fd autonegotiation configuración: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=e1000e driverversion=3.2.6-k firmware=0.5-4 latency=0 link=no multicast=yes port=twisted pair recursos: irq:124 memoria:f1100000-f111ffff

In case it is useful, the output of lspci is:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Coffee Lake HOST and DRAM Controller (rev 0c)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (Whiskey Lake) (rev 02)
00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v5/E3-1500 v5/6th Gen Core Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 0c)
00:12.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Thermal Controller (rev 11)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP USB 3.1 xHCI Controller (rev 11)
00:14.2 RAM memory: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Shared SRAM (rev 11)
00:14.3 Network controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP CNVi [Wireless-AC] (rev 11)
00:14.5 SD Host controller: Intel Corporation BayHubTech Integrated SD controller (rev 11)
00:15.0 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0 (rev 11)
00:15.1 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1 (rev 11)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP MEI Controller #1 (rev 11)
00:17.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SATA Controller [AHCI Mode] (rev 11)
00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #13 (rev f1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP LPC Controller (rev 11)
00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP High Definition Audio Controller (rev 11)
00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SMBus Controller (rev 11)
00:1f.5 Serial bus controller [0c80]: Intel Corporation Cannon Point-LP SPI Controller (rev 11)
00:1f.6 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection (6) I219-V (rev 11)
01:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller: Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a809

Is there any way in which 1) I can have a working satable wifi on ubuntu 20.04 and 2) perhaps having Ubuntu recognizing the bluetooth controller?

Thanks you for your time!

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1 Answer

I have this same issue on my pc, or I did. This is prominent all across every distro for me. You need to be on kernel 5.13, the update fixes Bluetooth, but Bluetooth can break after a restart, a way to prevent Bluetooth from breaking again is by disabling Bluetooth before restarting. You could do this manually or adding aliases in ~/bash.bashrc, if this still doesn't fix it, reset the cmos. I know its difficult to open up this model, but it can be done. Afterwards run git clone in terminal, then uninstall it. i think it has the wifi drivers, idk, then just restart and it should be working. Atleast this worked for me. I have a 10ug-219 (rip grammar despite english being my first language)

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