……… what are you talking about?

The new modules can absolutely be updated independently of the kernel.

The modules need to be built against your version of the kernel, but MANY versions of the modules work (and are compiled against) different kernel versions.

Just look at nvidia, a nearly duplicate version of this exact problem. They have MANY versions you can install at any given time for their cards.

Yes and those kernel modules that get loaded in to control hardware interfaces are often referred to as drivers.

Likely driver issues, hopefully they can get it fixed!

Intel did a great job with the drivers in windows last time, time will tell if they fix up the Linux ones