Reply To: Linux Mint on Chuwi Hi10 & Hi12 Tablets

[Iaroslav]

BBaker wrote:

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

Iaroslav wrote:

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I don’t know if this will work if you are just booted up using Live-USB disk unless you have managed to create a “persistent” data Live-USB disk. Withou persistence data/files is not saved between reboots on our USB drive, so you might need to actually install LinuxMint onto your HD/EMMC partition. But anyway you can try it. If it doesn’t work maybe you can figure out how to create a persistent Live-USB. I do not know how to do that. How to build/install the rtl8723bs wifi driver… as documented here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=223426&p=1211098&hilit=rtl8723bs#p1211098

sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic git
cd ~
git clone https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs.git
cd rtl8723bs
make
sudo make install
sudo reboot

But if I don’t have internet how I can use apt-get ?

Sorry, I forgot that. I’m guessing you don’t have wired Ethernet or USB wifi connection either? Let me reboot into kernel 4.4 and I can build the driver for you to download. FYI, another way I just thought is to install Oracle VirtualBox on Windows and then install LinuxMint 18 inside VirtualBox. Then you will have internet access from that Virtual Machine and will be able to run all Linux commands with internet access – and can build drivers. Yeah it’s a PITA (pain in the ass) but if you have no other way it should work, in theory… I have used VirtualBox many times just never tried building any modules/drivers using it.

It would be great!thx!!!