Anyone know how to fix and reactivate bluetooth capability for a Gateway P-7085u laptop that's missing the bluetooth driver files?

[Solid Snake1]

I have an old Gateway laptop which had Vista that a friend gave me after they essentially bricked it. I re-installed a fresh copy of windows 10 and I have been unable to get the laptop's bluetooth to actually work. I can't seem to find the necessary driver files. It appears the manufacturer may be Broadcom but their site says they no longer provide driver software. Windows trouble shooter says it detects bluetooth but can't activate it. Manually starting bluetooth services doesn't seem to help anything. It doesn't appear there's anyway to use Device Manager to fix anything so far. As I'm here

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