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itslemonchan

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Registered: 2025-10-29

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Chuwi Hi8 Pro (CW1513) has no WiFi during installation

Hi, I have been trying for a while to install Arch Linux on this cheap chinese tablet called the Chuwi Hi8 Pro (actual model number is CW1513) with no success because the WiFi is not working during installation.

I followed the BRCM43430 not found during installation section of the wiki with no success. I even tried 3 different txt files (one two three), which also didn't helped. I even tried the b43 driver, also with no success.

Without the txt files, I see the following entries related to bcm and brcm in dmesg:

[   28.539212] 8086228A:00: ttyS4 at MMIO 0x91821000 (irq = 120, base_baud = 2764800) is a 16550A
[   28.552175] serial serial0: tty port ttyS4 registered
[   28.562047] 8086228A:01: ttyS5 at MMIO 0x9181f000 (irq = 121, base_baud = 2764800) is a 16550A
[   28.719879] brcmfmac: F1 signature read @0x18000000=0x1541a9a6
[   28.726174] brcmfmac: brcmf_fw_alloc_request: using brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio for chip BCM43430/1
[   28.729941] usbcore: registered new interface driver brcmfmac
[   29.048419] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.Default string-Default string.bin failed with error -2
[   29.823907] brcmfmac mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.txt failed with error -2
[   29.946672] bmc150_accel_i2c i2c-BOSC0200:00: supply vdd not found, using dummy regulator
[   29.946796] bmc150_accel_i2c i2c-BOSC0200:00: supply vddio not found, using dummy regulator
[   30.539407] hci_uart_bcm serial0-0: supply vbat not found, using dummy regulator
[   30.539549] hci_uart_bcm serial0-0: supply vddio not found, using dummy regulator
[   30.834196] brcmfmac: brcmf_sdio_htclk: HT Avail timeout (1000000): clkctl 0x50
[   30.869130] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: chip id 94
[   30.869593] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: features 0x2e
[   30.871296] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43430A1
[   30.871313] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM43430A1 (001.002.009) build 0000
[   30.903306] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: firmware Patch file not found, tried:
[   30.905611] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM43430A1.hcd'
[   30.907868] Bluetooth: hci0: BCM: 'brcm/BCM.hcd'

With the txt files I get the same "Direct firmware load ... failed with error" lines, the only difference is that the code changes to -16.

Any idea about how I should check? Thanks