On 19/09/2024 12:53, Daniel Hatton wrote: > - The wifi connection drops with even the lightest of physical touches > on the body of the dongle (Atheros AR9271), and because the dongle > sticks out a long way from the laptop case, it gets touched a lot.  Has > anyone had any joy with a Linux-libre-driven USB wifi dongle that > doesn't have these properties? > - One or both of the dongles is frequently stopping the machine from > resuming successfully from sleep.  I can find instructions online for > how to configure systemd to handle awkward USB devices during > sleep/wake; are there equivalent instructions for shepherd, please? The two problems above are now SOLVED, by ditching the Atheros AR9271 dongle and replacing it with a ThinkPenguin TPE-N150USB, which appears to have the same chipset but doesn't exhibit the problems. > - I've tried following the instructions in the GUIX reference manual for > how to configure the system to activate Bluetooth at boot time, but with > no joy: I still have to activate Bluetooth manually after logging in to > Gnome.  Any advice on this, please? This is also now SOLVED, as discussed in the thread culminating in .