Asus C201P

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Asus C201P

Postby jonasl » Sun Nov 11, 2018 3:53 pm

Until recently, the image for the Asus Chromebook Flip C100P worked at my Asus C201P. With the last updates (I tried reinstalling from an old downloaded system image an as soon as I updated, the same happens) it hangs during the boot:

(I don't know how to add an image here)

The screen contains the message "failed to start network time synchronization" and the last message is "brcmfmac: brcmf_c_preinit_dcdms: Firmware version = w10: Oct 24 2017 02:04:25 version 7.35.349.28 (r674459 CY) FWID 01-aa74a501"
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Re: Asus C201P

Postby TheSaint » Sun Nov 11, 2018 4:22 pm

Your broadcom WiFi card has a problem. It may be some fix in AUR. But first you should disable the WiFi.
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Re: Asus C201P

Postby jonasl » Sun Nov 11, 2018 5:19 pm

How should I do that? There is no boot menu/ manager at Chromebooks, the only thing I can do is to modify the sd card content (the system is on a sd card) from an x86 system.
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Re: Asus C201P

Postby TheSaint » Mon Nov 12, 2018 5:05 am

Oh yes, that could be the way to take the SD on a computer and modify the configuration for the WiFi. If you're using NetworkManager then you may find its configuration in /etc, as most of all configurations. Same for wpa_supplicant and systemd-networkd.
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Re: Asus C201P

Postby nikkel » Mon Nov 12, 2018 10:13 am

Exactly the same problem here. Worked fine initially after installig the image from tar, then after 'pacman -Syu' and adding some packages (Xorg, LXDE, etc.) cannot boot anymore. Blacklisting the 'brcmfmac' module does not help.
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Re: Asus C201P

Postby jonasl » Mon Nov 12, 2018 3:40 pm

I "solved" it by using the image and not installing updates (only pacman -u) and then installing the packages I need. This is a very unclean solution but it worked for me.

I would experiment a bit, but tar on my main machine does not accept long filenames (even with -format=posix) so I can't make a copy of my arch system which I would do before trying updating again.
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