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[Hardware] ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS (WIFI) – Bluetooth broken

Somehow the onboard Bluetooth of my Motherboard stopped working, but the Wi-Fi was still working fine. This confused me because both are provided by the Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 card. The blueman-manager simply could not find the Bluetooth device anymore. Also, when running the command rfkill, it was just listing the Wi-Fi device. The second entry was missing (I took the screenshot, after Bluetooth was working again).

Since I had recently upgraded to a new kernel, I assumed this must be the problem. After testing many different kernels, it still didn’t work. Even on a kernel where it definitely worked before.

Then I stumbled across this thread Intel Wi-Fi 6 AX200 Bluetooth Stopped Working Yet Wifi is still fine. The last commenter solved his issue by unplugging the Intel Wi-Fi Card from his Motherboard and plugging it back in. To be honest, I’m not even sure if this is possible on my motherboard, as it is some onboard thing directly on the board. But this post leads me to reconnect the external antenna, which is connected with two cables on the back of the PC. Since Wi-Fi was still working all along, I did not expect anything from it, but after turning the PC back on, suddenly Bluetooth was working again. WTF! No idea how this is possible, as I have used Bluetooth and WI-FI for many months without the external antenna. Fortunately, however, it works again.

[Hardware] ASUS TUF GAMING B550M-PLUS and RTL8125B Realtek

Just switched some hardware parts in my main PC:

I moved from Intel to an AMD build. I kept my boot disk with Linux Mint 20 and everything was running out of the box, except there was no ethernet connection available. The RTL8125B Realtek network card is not yet supported on a Kernel < 5.9. Since I’m running Kernel 5.6.14, I had to manual install it.

Go to: https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100-1000m-gigabit-ethernet-pci-express-software

Download the “2.5G Ethernet LINUX driver r8125 for kernel up to 5.6”, untar and follow the installation instructions from the README. In fact you only have to run

sudo ./autorun.sh
#check with
lsmod | grep r8125
ifconfig -a