Linux Mint on Chuwi Hi10 & Hi12 Tablets

[BBaker]

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

Iaroslav wrote:

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.

[Iaroslav]

BBaker wrote:

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

Iaroslav wrote:

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.

It would be great!thx!!!

[BBaker]

fucking anti spam filter is not letting me post now. argh! frustrating.

[BBaker]

OK here it is. I just compiled it on Kernel 4.4 download this zip file and extract it. Since you don’t have internet you’ll need to use your phone or other computer. It’s around 15MB size. [EDIT:] I think the spam filter is not permitting me to post with the link to the file download. Will try including it in the next post below.

Install commands I pulled directly from the driver source Makefile.
Open Terminal window, CD to directory where you extracted the files, then run…

sudo install -p -m 644 r8723bs.ko  /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_nic.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin
sudo /sbin/depmod -a $(uname -r)
sudo reboot

[Iaroslav]

BBaker wrote:

fucking anti spam filter is not letting me post now. argh! frustrating.

No problem, I have downloaded already, what I must do with this packege ?

[Iaroslav]

BBaker wrote:

OK here it is. I just compiled it on Kernel 4.4 download this zip file and extract it. Since you don’t have internet you’ll need to use your phone or other computer. It’s around 15MB size. [EDIT:] I think the spam filter is not permitting me to post with the link to the file download. Will try including it in the next post below. Install commands I pulled directly from the driver source Makefile. Open Terminal window, CD to directory where you extracted the files, then run…

sudo install -p -m 644 r8723bs.ko  /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/
sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_nic.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_nic.bin
sudo cp -n rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi/rtl8723bs_wowlan.bin
sudo /sbin/depmod -a $(uname -r)
sudo reboot

OK, thx!! I will try now.

[BBaker]

trying again to re-post the link to the Realtek rtl8723bs WiFi driver (for Linux kernel 4.4) download, this time with a Bitly shortened link: http://bit.ly/2dnZNDF

[BBaker]

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

[Iaroslav]

BBaker wrote:

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…

[BBaker]

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

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.

[BBaker]

@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

[BBaker]

Iaroslav wrote:

BBaker wrote:

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

[Iaroslav]

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

This is ubuntu distro so it doesn’t have inxi, yeah I figured out how to boot from internal drive…

The program ‘inxi’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install inxi

Wi-Fi is not working so it won’t connect
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘github.com’

[Elias Casanova]

Hi! I’m new here, but have been following since a couple days ago and tried some of your methods. Changing the BIOS ACPI to PCI setting got the wifi to work, but audio is nonfunctional even with latest 16.10 beta 2 distro on liveUSB. Bluetooth only functioned with Linuxium’s alterations to the iso [\url]

I know I shouldn’t be booting up unofficial kernels, but I went for it anyway. Though my display is recognized as “unknown” it boots up on full 1920 x 1200, albeit it’s recognized as an “unknown display”. There is a decent amount of screen tearing, but I’m going to go back to the BIOS settings and tinker around with them to see if i can get GFX support on to help with that (I read elsewhere that that setting helped with Chuwi Hi10 on Remix OS to fix display issues and freezes, though apples to oranges I guess).

Cheers!

 

 

[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

This is ubuntu distro so it doesn’t have inxi, yeah I figured out how to boot from internal drive…

The program ‘inxi’ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install inxi

Wi-Fi is not working so it won’t connect
wget: unable to resolve host address ‘github.com’

what shows from:
dmesg | grep 8723
and
lsmod | grep 8723
and for hardware and networking details try one of these…
lshw > lshwinfo.txt && gedit lshwinfo.txt
hwinfo > hwinfo.txt && gedit hwinfo.txt

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