Running GNU/Linux on EZBook 3 (ArchLinux working!)

[Ricardo Simões]

That’s great news!!!

Can you please paste here the result of sudo -xxAvv6 please? I would like to compare this the EzBook 2 hardware

Best regards
Ricardo

[Antonio Álvarez Caballero]

Hi!

http://pastebin.com/xD47pAAB

Hope it helps 🙂

 

If I disconnect the wifi usb dongle, it doesn’t recognizes any wifi card. It is the same that ezbook2: I can see the wifi interface but I can’t detect any network.

[Linux33]

Hi, I have this laptop too. Antonio, do you have any new about wifi? For me, it’s really important that wifi works. I really want to have Linux in this laptop. I was using Ubuntu for the last 7  years and Windows sucks. Please, keep in touch! Thanks!

[Christopher]

Could you please share how you managed to boot Linux? On my unit I can not boot anything else than Windows. If I try to do I just get a black screen with a white cursor. I have tried everything already without success, even starting GRUB manually from the UEFI Shell results in the black screen. Secure Boot of course is disabled.

[Linux33]

I achieved to get into BIOS and Apricity (live-usb) works well, everything except WiFi. Well, I didn’t checked miniHDMI because I don’t have an adapter.

I used Rufus program to do a LIVE-USB with APRICITY OS (.iso). Later, I turn on my laptop and I was repeatedly press ‘ESC’. I selected my USB as first  and I pressed ‘F4’ to save and exit.

I don’t want to install it because I’m afraid to my laptop don’t work later. Also I don’t sure if it’s a good idea install alongside with Windows because we don’t have enough space.

News about WiFi?

[Brad]

Linux33 wrote:

I don’t want to install it because I’m afraid to my laptop don’t work later. Also I don’t sure if it’s a good idea install alongside with Windows because we don’t have enough space.

 I recommend you install Manjaro Linux Xfce 17.0 onto a big USB 3.0 drive. I will run fast and in data persistence mode. You will need two USB drives. One USB2.0 of 4GB or more to burn the Live-USB installation.  And the other USB3.0 of 16GB or more for target/destination of installation after booting the Live-USB.

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[Brad]

Antonio Álvarez Caballero wrote:

Hi! http://pastebin.com/xD47pAAB Hope it helps If I disconnect the wifi usb dongle, it doesn’t recognizes any wifi card. It is the same that ezbook2: I can see the wifi interface but I can’t detect any network.

About your Wifi, It does not look like the correct WiFi driver is being used. See this post where it says “driver: rtl8192cu” but yours says “driver: rtl8xxxu”, I think this is wrong. Your wifi adapter is RTL8188CUS which uses the driver rtl8192cu.

see this thread –> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=241825&p=1291994&hilit=rtl8xxxu+RTL8188CUS#p1291994
also maybe helpful -> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/reserve-7#TOC-Realtek-RTL8188CUS-and-RTL8192CU-chipsets-0bda:8176-and-0bda:8178-

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[Antonio Álvarez Caballero]

Christopher wrote:

Could you please share how you managed to boot Linux? On my unit I can not boot anything else than Windows. If I try to do I just get a black screen with a white cursor. I have tried everything already without success, even starting GRUB manually from the UEFI Shell results in the black screen. Secure Boot of course is disabled.

I created the USB using RUFUS (only in Windows 🙁 ), selecting “GPT for UEFI” . It boots without problem.

 

Brad wrote:

About your Wifi, It does not look like the correct WiFi driver is being used. See this post where it says “driver: rtl8192cu” but yours says “driver: rtl8xxxu”, I think this is wrong. Your wifi adapter is RTL8188CUS which uses the driver rtl8192cu. see this thread –> https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=241825&p=1291994&hilit=rtl8xxxu+RTL8188CUS#p1291994 also maybe helpful -> https://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/reserve-7#TOC-Realtek-RTL8188CUS-and-RTL8192CU-chipsets-0bda:8176-and-0bda:8178-

Thank you, I’ll check that!

Linux33 wrote:

I achieved to get into BIOS and Apricity (live-usb) works well, everything except WiFi. Well, I didn’t checked miniHDMI because I don’t have an adapter. I used Rufus program to do a LIVE-USB with APRICITY OS (.iso). Later, I turn on my laptop and I was repeatedly press ‘ESC’. I selected my USB as first and I pressed ‘F4’ to save and exit. I don’t want to install it because I’m afraid to my laptop don’t work later. Also I don’t sure if it’s a good idea install alongside with Windows because we don’t have enough space. News about WiFi?

No, it doesn’t. I don’t have any news about WiFi 🙁

Regards!

[Brad]

If you are using Arch or Manjaro you prob already are on Kernel 4.9 or 4.10.
If you want to try the absolute latest kernel 4.11 this might help you create an Ubuntu based distro…
http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2017/03/running-ubuntu-with-upstream-kernel-on.html
note the mention of I2C patches in Kernel 4.11. This could be very important and relevant to devices not working such as touchpad, audio, etc.

As of version 4.11 the mainline kernel will include support for HDMI audio on Intel Atom SoCs and early release candidates are already available. The latest mainline kernel also includes a number of other patches including AXP288, I2C and the latest anti-freeze patches. Canonical build upstream kernels based on these release candidates and they have just released ‘deb’ packages using the first Ubuntu version 4.11 kernel configuration file.

Or you could wait for Ubuntu 17.10 to come out, but who knows when?…

v4.11 kernel will be included in Ubuntu 17.10 thereby removing the basic need for customized kernels

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Antonio Álvarez Caballero wrote:

Hi! http://pastebin.com/xD47pAAB Hope it helps If I disconnect the wifi usb dongle, it doesn’t recognizes any wifi card. It is the same that ezbook2: I can see the wifi interface but I can’t detect any network.

Interesting that the output of the command says 16GB RAM is supported, so they can create a device of this price with 16GB RAM if they want.

Memory:

Array-1 capacity: 16 GB (check) devices: 2 EC: None

Device-1: ChannelA-DIMM0 size: 1 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3

manufacturer: N/A part: . .. .. serial: N/A

Device-2: ChannelA-DIMM1 size: 1 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3

manufacturer: N/A part: . .. .. serial: N/A

Device-3: ChannelB-DIMM0 size: 1 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3

manufacturer: N/A part: . .. .. serial: N/

Device-4: ChannelB-DIMM1 size: 1 GB speed: 1600 MHz type: DDR3

manufacturer: N/A part: . .. .. serial: N/A

[Brad]

There is only one memory slot. Furthermore the Intel spec says the Celeron N3450 only supports 8GB RAM max.  But hey, that is plenty esp if you are running Linux.

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[Brad]

Ubuntu 17.04 ISO with mainline v4.12-rc4 kernel, RTL8723BS Wifi/BT
http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2017/06/interim-ubuntu-1704-iso-with-mainline.html

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