Running Linux on the EZBook 2?

[Janus Reith]

What works: Bluetooth, Battery Percentage(didnt work on arch before), ( touchpad if you have the yepo 737s).

A sound adapter is finally shown as “Analog Output”, but has no audible output, neither through speakers or headphone jack.
Microphone is also not detected.

Wifi is detected but doesn’t find Networks, when I create a Hotspot my other wifi devices also won’t see it

[Alsetema]

Same goes for me, but progress is progress.

[Ricardo Simões]

Hello again people

Please forgive me, I don’t mean to hijack this thread but I decided to try one last time to revive my “dead” Jumper EzBook 2 by flashing its BIOS, and I’m about to order the necessary hardware to do it, but I don’t know if I need a 1.8v converter or not… I posted on this thread https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/5/ over a week asking for help but no one answered 🙁

Does anyone here knows if the EzBook 2 BIOS chip needs a 1.8v converter or not?

Many thanks in advance for your trouble

Best regards
Ricardo

[asdf]

hi guys, trying to get caught up with all this. i’m running elementary os right now on my jumper. i saw the list of stuff that works right now on it but how exactly do i get it to work (like bluetooth etc)?

[Michael]

Ricardo Simões wrote:

Hello again people Please forgive me, I don’t mean to hijack this thread but I decided to try one last time to revive my “dead” Jumper EzBook 2 by flashing its BIOS, and I’m about to order the necessary hardware to do it, but I don’t know if I need a 1.8v converter or not… I posted on this thread https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/5/ over a week asking for help but no one answered Does anyone here knows if the EzBook 2 BIOS chip needs a 1.8v converter or not? Many thanks in advance for your trouble

 

This guy unbricked his laptop with programmer ch341a: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/2/#post-54679

Apparently you don’t even need to purchase anything to unbrick it: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/3/#post-58235

[Ricardo Simões]

Michael wrote:

This guy unbricked his laptop with programmer ch341a: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/2/#post-54679 Apparently you don’t even need to purchase anything to unbrick it: https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/3/#post-58235

Michael I already tried shorting the pins several weeks ago like he said but I didn’t work, so I decided to try the programmer method. I also wrote on that thread too… I had to figure out by myself what BIOS chip it has and what voltage (see last post on https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/bios-cmos-reset/page/5/ ) since no one helped me.

I’m currently waiting for all the necessary hardware to arrive so that I can try to revive my Jumper EzBook 2…

Best regards
Ricardo

[Antonio Álvarez Caballero]

Hi! ArchLinux on EZbook3 is working! Only Bluetooth and Wifi doesn’t work. More info here.

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

 

Regards!

[Brad]

Manjaro 17.0 Xfce (based on Arch Linux) works great even running on a “persistent” USB 3.0 disk.  Super easy to install and use and is fast even running on USB.
You can try it on USB without messing with your HD/SSD partitions.  But you need two USB drives. One to burn the install ISO to a Live-USB disk and the other for installation destination after you bootup the Manjaro Live-USB drive.  https://manjaro.org/get-manjaro/
  PS. I tried installing Linux Mint  to run on USB-persistent and it fucked up my multiboot Grub setup on my hard disk (even though I chose to install it on a USB drive!)
Plus, after install it ran very slow.  Not recommended.

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[asdf]

okay reinstalled with arch, how do you get everything to work? is there a driver package you need to install or bios settings that need to be changed? at the moment wifi bluetooth trackpad audio and battery indicator are not working. mainly the battery indicator and the trackpad are the primary things i want to get working. thanks!

[Antonio Álvarez Caballero]

asdf wrote:

okay reinstalled with arch, how do you get everything to work? is there a driver package you need to install or bios settings that need to be changed? at the moment wifi bluetooth trackpad audio and battery indicator are not working. mainly the battery indicator and the trackpad are the primary things i want to get working. thanks!

 

I have the EzBook3 version, check the hardware report to see if it’s quite similar to EzBook2 🙂

http://pastebin.com/xD47pAAB

Regards!

[asdf]

here’s my inxi report: http://pastebin.com/fGYVg3LK

feels like this isn’t enough info, is there another command i should run?

[asdf]

oh something strange i also noticed: the trackpad’s gestures (three finger tap to load app menu, three finger scroll down to switch apps, etc) works, just not the actual mouse part lol. do not understand why.

[Brad]

asdf wrote:

here’s my inxi report: http://pastebin.com/fGYVg3LK feels like this isn’t enough info, is there another command i should run?

To get exhaustive info on your network/wireless setup run the following command string (the whole line) in a Terminal window…

wget -N -t 5 -T 10 https://github.com/UbuntuForums/wireless-info/raw/master/wireless-info && chmod +x wireless-info && ./wireless-info

Then find the wireless-info.txt file it creates, paste the contents to pastebin.com and post the URL

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[Brad]

asdf wrote:

oh something strange i also noticed: the trackpad’s gestures (three finger tap to load app menu, three finger scroll down to switch apps, etc) works, just not the actual mouse part lol. do not understand why.

Try some different distro’s.  I would recommend Linux Mint Mate 18.1 or Manjaro Xfce 17.0 (Manjaro is the easiest to try out because you can install it onto a USB drive and it works well and persists your data/changes).

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[Brad]

asdf wrote:

here’s my inxi report: http://pastebin.com/fGYVg3LK feels like this isn’t enough info, is there another command i should run?

yeah, well from your pastebin, this is an obvious problem… “Network:   Card: Failed to Detect Network Card!”
Run that WirelessInfo script above and post the output.

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