Tbook 10 WiFi chip

[Steven Seed]

I know from Chris’s review of the Tbook 10 that the WiFi chip is a Broadcom. Does anyone know what the model is? I’m thinking about buying one and trying to install Linux on it, but I know most of the Atom based tablets have Linux compatibility issues. I know the Cube Iwork 10 has the Realtek 8723bs chip which requires custom drivers to be compiled. I’m wondering if it will be the same for the Tbook 10.

[Peter]

Hi,

its an Ampak AP6212 combo module, which indeed feature a Broadcom BCM43438 wireless chip.

[Steven Seed]

Thanks.  I’m not having much luck finding support for the chip under Linux unless you are installing on a rasberry pi which is ARM based.

[BBaker]

I read somewhere that the BCM43438 identifies itself as the BCM43430 so maybe that firmware/driver will work for it for Kernel 4.1+
[edit] Possible it uses the same Wifi as the Chuwi Hi8?  This page says the Hi8 uses the BCM43430.

https://github.com/djvdorp/hi8/blob/master/miscinfo.md

[Steven Seed]

That’s a good hint. I also found this for the Chuwi vi10 Ultimate with has the same x5-z8300 processor so I imagine the results will be the same.

https://github.com/Dax89/chuwi-dev/wiki/Chuwi-Vi10-Ultimate

It’s not very encouraging. I might be better off with the Hibook Pro or Cube iwork 10 that use the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi. At least there seems to be more development work going on there.

 

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