try this: http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/ubuntu-16-10-beta-2-for-intel-baytrail-and-cherrytrail-devices-2/
Hi, I’ve already tried that with no success..
It’s the same as normal ubuntu version… will keep trying in my spare time..
Thanks 
Really? You alread tried this when? This distribution was just released TWO days ago. This is NOT Ubuntu 16.10, this is a custom distribution built by Linuxium specifically for Cherry-Trail devices. Let’s call it Linuxium 16.10 Beta 2. OK, so assuming you did try it. What is your results? The Live-USB does not bootup at all? Or it does, but most things are not working? I’m guessing you have Broadcom Wifi? What is your output of:
inxi -Fxz
One Chuwi Hi10 user has tried it so far and it looks very promising. It’s the first time I’ve seen WiFi working during a Live-USB boot. And it’s the first time ever I’ve heard anyone reporting that Bluetooth is working from any USB or HD bootup…
http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/linux-mint-on-a-chuwi-hi10-tablet/page/22/#post-52650
There is a new customized Ubuntu 16.10 distro made to supposedly run better (more updated drivers) on Bay-Trail and Cherry-Trail devices. This *might* work better on Chuwi and other tablets (I’m hoping) during a Live-USB bootup. It’s uses the latest 4.8 kernel and I’m hoping the latest Realtek WiFi drivers: Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
Yeah this iso are working good as liveUSB, Wi-Fi, Blutooth, everything is working but when you install this version of ubuntu on a hard drive nothing is working 
I can’t undestand why…
@Larislov, did you do procedures like this, that was posted some time ago (above) in this discussion thread? The guy mentions changes to both the Grub boot options and also changes to settings of the Hi10 BIOS…
http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/linux-mint-on-a-chuwi-hi10-tablet/#post-23522
There is a new customized Ubuntu 16.10 distro made to supposedly run better (more updated drivers) on Bay-Trail and Cherry-Trail devices. This *might* work better on Chuwi and other tablets (I’m hoping) during a Live-USB bootup. It’s uses the latest 4.8 kernel and I’m hoping the latest Realtek WiFi drivers: Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
Yeah this iso are working good as liveUSB, Wi-Fi, Blutooth, everything is working but when you install this version of ubuntu on a hard drive nothing is working I can’t undestand why…
Does the system startup? You can run Terminal commands? If so post your output from these commands…
inxi -Fxz
and also this script will give a lot of information about network/wifi configuration…
wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info
Then put the file ‘wireless-info‘ on http://www.pastebin.com and post the URL to it here.
There is a new customized Ubuntu 16.10 distro made to supposedly run better (more updated drivers) on Bay-Trail and Cherry-Trail devices. This *might* work better on Chuwi and other tablets (I’m hoping) during a Live-USB bootup. It’s uses the latest 4.8 kernel and I’m hoping the latest Realtek WiFi drivers: Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
Yeah this iso are working good as liveUSB, Wi-Fi, Blutooth, everything is working but when you install this version of ubuntu on a hard drive nothing is working 🙁 I can’t undestand why…
Mr. Linux Compute-Stick (Linuxium) has put out a custom Ubuntu distro that may work better on Atom Cherry-Trail tablets.
It’s based on Ubuntu 16.10 Beta2 (kernel 4.8-x). I think it’s worth creating a Live-USB disk and trying it out. It would be a big help if the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver is loaded by default on booting from USB. Let us know if you try it! And if it works for you, throw the guy a few bucks on his donation page…
Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
“I’ve decided to re-spin my Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 ISO with a kernel that supports HDMI audio and wifi on any Intel Baytrail or Cherrytrail device. The kernel and ISO were developed for Intel Compute Sticks and this version hasn’t been extensively tested on multiple devices simply due to the fact that I don’t own them! As your mileage may vary depending upon device there are two options available.
The first option is to download my ISO and write to a USB (use ‘Rufus’ on Windows or ‘dd’ on Linux). You can then try Ubuntu and/or perform a fresh installation.”
Mr. Linux Compute-Stick (Linuxium) has put out a custom distro that may work better on Atom Cherry-Trail tablets.
I think it’s worth creating a Live-USB disk and trying it out. It would be a big help if the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver is loaded by default on booting from USB. Let us know if you try it!…
Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
There is a new customized Ubuntu 16.10 distro made to supposedly run better (more updated drivers) on Bay-Trail and Cherry-Trail devices.
This *might* work better on Chuwi and other tablets (I’m hoping) during a Live-USB bootup. It’s uses the latest 4.8 kernel and I’m hoping the latest Realtek WiFi drivers: Ubuntu 16.10 Beta 2 for Intel Baytrail and Cherrytrail Devices
lspci
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.
After you get your Wifi working I recommend you upgrade your Kernel to 4.8-rc8 (the latest as of now) which has been shown to work on Chuwi Hi12. You will need this later kernel if you want to try to get audio and touchscreen drivers working. If it does not work for you it can be uninstalled. Note: I’m pretty sure this will not work from a Live-USB boot, you have to install LinuxMint to your HD partition. Alternately, you could try booting from a Live-USB disk of Ubuntu 16.10 Beta2 which is based on Kernel 4.8
To upgrade your Kernel to 4.8-rc8 …
mkdir kern4.8.rc8
cd kern4.8.rc8
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8-rc8/linux-headers-4.8.0-040800rc8_4.8.0-040800rc8.201609252231_all.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8-rc8/linux-headers-4.8.0-040800rc8-generic_4.8.0-040800rc8.201609252231_amd64.deb
wget http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v4.8-rc8/linux-image-4.8.0-040800rc8-generic_4.8.0-040800rc8.201609252231_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i *.deb
sudo reboot
lspci
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 ?
lspci
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
Hello, I’am new at linux so i don’t know how to patch the files for WI-FI modules, somebody can explain how patch or how to install drivers for WI-FI card ?
It’s very easy to explain *if* the driver code is available (eg. on Github) but we need to know which WiFi device are you talking about, which is in your tablet? If you can boot Linux (Ubuntu or LinuxMint) from a Live-USB drive then I can tell you what commands to run in a Terminal window (commmand line). Which tablet do you have, Hi12?.. Are you able to boot Linux from a Live-USB? If so, run this from a terminal: inxi -Fxz To get exhaustive network information run this (single line) script in the Terminal window: wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info the resulting file ‘wireless-info‘ has all the details.
System: Host: mint Kernel: 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.6.5 (Qt 5.5.1) Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Machine: System: Default string product: Default string v: Default string
Mobo: Hampoo model: Cherry Trail CR v: Default string
Bios: American Megatrends v: P02A_C106.60D date: 03/03/2016
CPU: Quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11519
clock speeds: max: 1840 MHz 1: 479 MHz 2: 479 MHz 3: 479 MHz
4: 479 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Device 22b0 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: fbdev,intel (unloaded: vesa)
Resolution: 800×[email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-21-generic
Network: Card: Failed to Detect Network Card!
Drives: HDD Total Size: 31.0GB (Used Error!)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 62.5GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sda model: DataTraveler_3.0 size: 31.0GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.9G used: 69M (4%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 178 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 474.7/3876.3MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421) inxi: 2.2.35
Is this a Chuwi Hi10 or Hi12? I would recommend you download and create a Live-USB boot disk of the new (beta version) of Ubuntu 16.10 which has much newer Kernel 4.8 code. You are currently running kernel 4.4.
Ubuntu Unity 16.10 Beta2: http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/ubuntu-16.10-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso
Ubuntu Mate 16.10 Beta2: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-mate/releases/16.10/beta-2/ubuntu-mate-16.10-beta2-desktop-amd64.iso
Lubuntu 16.10 Beta2: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/16.10/beta-2/lubuntu-16.10-beta2-alternate-amd64.iso
One Chuwi Hi12 user reported making a BIOS change to get WiFi working. Not sure if it’s needed in your case…
Booted into Bios/ South Bridge/ LPSS & SCC CONFIGURATION/ SCC SDIO Support = changed acpi to PCI then saved and exit. After reboot, wifi working! Connected and online! 
inxi -Fxz still shows card not found even though the wifi is working…
Hello, I’am new at linux so i don’t know how to patch the files for WI-FI modules, somebody can explain how patch or how to install drivers for WI-FI card ?
It’s very easy to explain *if* the driver code is available (eg. on Github) but we need to know which WiFi device are you talking about, which is in your tablet? If you can boot Linux (Ubuntu or LinuxMint) from a Live-USB drive then I can tell you what commands to run in a Terminal window (commmand line). Which tablet do you have, Hi12?.. Are you able to boot Linux from a Live-USB? If so, run this from a terminal: inxi -Fxz To get exhaustive network information run this (single line) script in the Terminal window: wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info the resulting file ‘wireless-info‘ has all the details.
System: Host: mint Kernel: 4.4.0-21-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.6.5 (Qt 5.5.1) Distro: Linux Mint 18 Sarah
Machine: System: Default string product: Default string v: Default string
Mobo: Hampoo model: Cherry Trail CR v: Default string
Bios: American Megatrends v: P02A_C106.60D date: 03/03/2016
CPU: Quad core Intel Atom x5-Z8300 (-MCP-) cache: 1024 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 11519
clock speeds: max: 1840 MHz 1: 479 MHz 2: 479 MHz 3: 479 MHz
4: 479 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Device 22b0 bus-ID: 00:02.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.3 drivers: fbdev,intel (unloaded: vesa)
Resolution: 800×[email protected]
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.8, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-21-generic
Network: Card: Failed to Detect Network Card!
Drives: HDD Total Size: 31.0GB (Used Error!)
ID-1: /dev/mmcblk0 model: N/A size: 62.5GB
ID-2: USB /dev/sda model: DataTraveler_3.0 size: 31.0GB temp: 0C
Partition: ID-1: / size: 1.9G used: 69M (4%) fs: overlay dev: N/A
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 37.0C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 178 Uptime: 11 min Memory: 474.7/3876.3MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.421) inxi: 2.2.35
