This looks very similar to bug #1878553.

ubuntu-drivers-common reports that iwlwifi is "manually installed"
because "modinfo iwlwifi" returns !0. This causes software-properties-
gtk to display this confusing, mostly greyed out piece of UI.

The iwlwifi module is part of the kernel
(/lib/modules/5.4.0-31-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwlwifi.ko
is installed by linux-modules-extra-5.4.0-31-generic), which explains
why the adapter card works out of the box. Therefore the DKMS module
really shouldn't be needed in most cases (although I'm not sure how
often the module is updated as part of kernel updates VS backport-
iwlwifi-dkms updates).

ubuntu-drivers-common probably needs to be made aware of such modules
shipped by the kernel, to avoid incorrectly labelling them as "manually
installed".

** Package changed: software-properties (Ubuntu Groovy) => ubuntu-
drivers-common (Ubuntu Groovy)

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  software-properties-gtk erroneously reports that certain Intel
  wireless adapter cards are not working

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