Reply To: Linux Mint on Chuwi Hi10 & Hi12 Tablets

[BBaker]

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

@Laroslav, Also, right after booting up and before doing anything, run the dmesg command in a Terminal and put the log file on Pastebin and post the URL:

cd ~
dmesg > dmesg.log.txt

There you go.

It’s missing the firmware files for the WiFi module…
[ 28.225758] rtl8723bs mmc2:0001:1: Direct firmware load for rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin failed with error -2
You could probably pull these files off of the USB boot disk or get them from the github repo. In the Wifi driver Make file you can see where these files are copied during installation, and so I guess you can find them in this location on the USB boot drive. Are they at this location on your installed HD drive? I think not.

cp -n rtl8723bs_nic.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin
cp -n rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin

edit: you can pull them from the driver dev’s github repo if needed:

cd ~
wget https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/raw/master/rtl8723bs_nic.bin
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_nic.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin 
wget https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/raw/master/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin
sudo reboot