ASUS T100TA W10 dual boot

[Member burnonbigriver]

New to Antix while using MX for several months. The ASUS T100TA is one of the older W8.1 laptops with keyboard docs that got slow with W10. I was able to boot Antix-19.3 right off into a 6 Gb partition, which was great since this tablet/laptop has 32bit efi but 64 bit processor and is quite a pain. For the last couple of hours, the T100TA has been running quite well. Nicely done – my previous attempt with Xubuntu, Lubuntu and linuxium respins gave c-state errors and Antix is a real step up.

Unfortunately, I cannot get the internal Broadcom 802.11abgn Wireless SDIO adapter (as listed in W10) to work for wireless and have to run from an old Panda wireless adapter. I have been through a lot of forums and tried moving files from the nvram to /lib/firmware/brcm/brcmfmac43340-sdio.txt and tried to load the various on-board linux drivers but no luck.

Sound does not work either – note that sound does not work in W10 and requires loading the old W8.1 sound drivers. The W10 boot does allow me check for failed hardware, so I’m keeping that until everything in Antix is fixed.

I thought it would be worth posting here first before I try upgrading the kernel in case the support for this baytrail device was improved. I have seen a lot of the videos as I prepared for the MX install and was choosing between MX and Antix, but I have not found a solution for wifi and sound using the internal components.

Thanks for all of the effort so far.

My code output is:

System:
  Host: T100TA-antix-19 Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64 
  compiler: gcc v: 8.3.0 Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3 dm: SLiM 1.3.6 
  Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020 
  base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: T100TA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: ASUSTeK model: T100TA v: 1.0 serial: <filter> 
  UEFI: American Megatrends v: T100TA.304 date: 03/14/2014 
Memory:
  RAM: total: 1.84 GiB used: 548.2 MiB (29.0%) 
  RAM Report: 
  permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges required. 
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Atom Z3740 bits: 64 type: MCP 
  arch: Silvermont rev: 3 L2 cache: 1024 KiB bogomips: 10664 
  Speed: 533 MHz min/max: 533/1866 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 533 2: 533 
  3: 1044 4: 1271 
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch acpi aes aperfmperf apic arat arch_perfmon bts 
  clflush cmov constant_tsc cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64 dtherm dts epb ept 
  erms est flexpriority fpu fxsr ht ida kaiser lahf_lm lm mca mce mmx 
  monitor movbe msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae pat pbe pclmulqdq pdcm pebs 
  pge pni popcnt pse pse36 rdrand rdtscp rep_good sep smep ss sse sse2 
  sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 syscall tm tm2 tpr_shadow tsc tsc_adjust 
  tsc_deadline_timer vme vmx vnmi vpid xtopology xtpr 
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Atom Processor Z36xxx/Z37xxx Series Graphics & Display 
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0f31 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
  resolution: 1368x768~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Bay Trail v: 4.2 Mesa 18.3.6 
  compat-v: 3.0 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Message: No Device data found. 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp 
Network:
  Message: No Device data found. 
  Device-1: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: USB driver: rt2800usb 
  bus ID: 1-4:3 chip ID: 148f:5370 serial: <filter> 
  IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter> 
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link 
  WAN IP: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 58.24 GiB used: 3.57 GiB (6.1%) 
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk2 model: SEM64G size: 58.24 GiB serial: <filter> 
  scheme: GPT 
  Message: No Optical or Floppy data was found. 
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data was found. 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 5.70 GiB used: 3.54 GiB (62.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/mmcblk2p5 
  label: rootantiX19 uuid: 0344eb5e-2f80-489c-9f2c-150e8aa31bf1 
  ID-2: /boot/efi size: 96.0 MiB used: 24.4 MiB (25.4%) fs: vfat 
  dev: /dev/mmcblk2p2 label: N/A uuid: A494-5875 
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 374.0 MiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
  dev: /dev/mmcblk2p6 label: swap uuid: 7b0b8607-2342-402a-a543-dba12b6a5b6c 
Unmounted:
  ID-1: /dev/mmcblk2boot0 size: 4.0 MiB fs: <root required> label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-2: /dev/mmcblk2boot1 size: 4.0 MiB fs: <root required> label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-3: /dev/mmcblk2p1 size: 499.0 MiB fs: ntfs label: N/A 
  uuid: 12667F7A667F5E03 
  ID-4: /dev/mmcblk2p3 size: 16.0 MiB fs: <root required> label: N/A 
  uuid: N/A 
  ID-5: /dev/mmcblk2p4 size: 51.42 GiB fs: bitlocker label: N/A uuid: N/A 
USB:
  Hub: 1-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 6 rev: 2.0 
  speed: 480 Mb/s chip ID: 1d6b:0002 
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: ASUSTek type: Keyboard,HID 
  driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 0b05:17e0 
  Device-2: 1-4:3 info: Ralink RT5370 Wireless Adapter type: Network 
  driver: rt2800usb interfaces: 1 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s 
  chip ID: 148f:5370 serial: <filter> 
  Hub: 2-0:1 info: Full speed (or root) Hub ports: 1 rev: 3.0 speed: 5 Gb/s 
  chip ID: 1d6b:0003 
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 46.0 C mobo: N/A 
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Info:
  Processes: 180 Uptime: 21m Init: SysVinit v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 
  Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: bash v: 5.0.3 running in: roxterm 
  inxi: 3.0.36

burnonbigriver
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ASUS T100TA 2 Gb RAM 64 Gb emmc W10-52 Gb + Anti-19.3-5.8 Gb dual boot

[Member seaken64]

Is the sound and wifi working with MX? Post the MX inxi?

Seaken64

[Moderator caprea]

The first thing you might want to try is to install a newer kernel.It’s easily done
control-centre > system > package-installer > kernels
If sound and wireless work on MX might go with the 4.19-kernel or try the newest 5.8.16

[Member burnonbigriver]

caprea wrote:

The first thing you might want to try is to install a newer kernel.It’s easily done
control-centre > system > package-installer > kernels
If sound and wireless work on MX might go with the 4.19-kernel or try the newest 5.8.16

@seaken64 and @carprea

Thanks for your responses. I will post the MX work at the MX forums. I do work on the MX machine so I want to finish that deadline before I start mucking with it.

As for Antix-19.3 on the T100TA “hobby toy” , I will try the newer kernel in a few days if no other insightful forum contributer presents a solution that I missed. I will probably try something smaller than the full install on this dual boot machine in the future.

burnonbigriver
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ASUS T100TA 2 Gb RAM 64 Gb emmc W10-52 Gb + Anti-19.3-5.8 Gb dual boot

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