If you’re having trouble with proprietary hardware networking and bluetooth, I wonder if the some USB hardware from ThinkPenguin would help you with that. Namely the wireless dongle and the bluetooth one, both of which don’t rely on proprietary blobs and work with fully free systems out of the box. Not exactly the cheapest thing to outfit on inherited, old systems at ~$50 each, however.
If you’re having trouble with proprietary hardware networking and bluetooth, I wonder if the some USB hardware from ThinkPenguin would help you with that. Namely the wireless dongle and the bluetooth one, both of which don’t rely on proprietary blobs and work with fully free systems out of the box. Not exactly the cheapest thing to outfit on inherited, old systems at ~$50 each, however.