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[Drew]

Wireless does in fact work in Ubuntu. The driver is not on the iso
image, but I've found a tarball of r8723bs.ko which I've compiled.
When it gets modprobed it immediately flashes a message on the screen
saying that wireless connections are available; and I can connect to
them.

There is also a virtual keyboard in the Ubuntu iso called onboard,
which gives me a choice of keyboard layouts.

I used a  hub and USB keyboard initially in getting the machine set
up. USB is hot pluggable/unpluggable in Ubuntu as well as Windows once
it's running on the SD card.


On 3/8/15, rborromeo at the5spot.com <rborromeo at the5spot.com> wrote:
> You need to get a USB hub and work the keyboard and bootable USB or
> CDROM to load the OS. It's pretty easy but there is no digitizer, wifi,
> video drivers for it
>
> I got a Winbook T701 which I wish I hadn't because of the above
>
> If you just bought it I would take it back and get an Asus as there is a
> larger Linux community around them.
>
> I have a Dell 3000 2 in 1 that works out the box with Ubuntu. Everything
> works great but the keyboard it's a little twitchy unless you actually
> use it on a table but it's a low end Baytrail  machine so you can't
> expect much. WIth that being said it's a great Linux laptop.
>
>
>
>
> On 3/7/2015 8:12 PM, Drew wrote:
>> A bit of clarification: I'm trying two different approaches to getting
>> Linux to run. The first, fallback position, involves running Vbox with
>> the pre-installed Windows as the host. This approach is working well,
>> and does not need to boot from the SD card and in fact shouldn't. It
>> does boot the iso's of bootable CDs and DVDs.
>>
>> The other, preferred approach (as I don't trust Windows on the
>> internet) (besides which, Ubuntu on the tablet looks pretty damn
>> nice!) is to run Linux natively, off the SD card since space is at a
>> premium on the internal hard drive. *This* is what is failing to boot.
>>
>> As far as whether I'm putting a valid bootable image on the SD card:
>> I'm not sure about my first attempt, even though I got grub-install to
>> run with what seemed to be an appropriate result for a UEFI system.
>>
>> But my second attempt was to put the SD card in a card reader and plug
>> it into the USB socket, and run Rufus on it exactly as I did with the
>> flash drive with the Ubuntu image. (Rufus can't access the SD slot
>> itself.) BTW, it boots from this copy as well - provided it's in the
>> USB slot. I need it booting (or at least running) from it in the SD
>> slot, as I have other uses for the USB slot. This is what I'm only
>> having partial success with.
>>
>> I have the boot order in my "BIOS" (actually a hacked 32 bit version
>> of EFI) set as USB Flash, then SD card, then Windows. The idea being
>> to boot a USB stick, to just put it in the slot (or in a hub), to boot
>> Windows momentarily pop the SD card before letting the machine boot,
>> and to boot Linux just turn it on. I can live with dedicating a flash
>> drive to booting Linux if necessary. But I at least want write access
>> to a piece of the SD card that Windows can also handle while I'm in
>> Linux, as well as the USB slot free.
>>
>> Oh yes, one other thing might be useful: help in getting the touch
>> screen working in Linux, or at least a clue as to what to apt-get
>> install when I get this machine to in internet connection.
>>
>>
>> On 3/7/15, Harry Burleson <hwburleson at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>>> * I have NOT, however, managed to get a linux system to boot from the
>>>> SD card. The Linux install stalled out when it tried to run
>>>> grub-install...
>>>> I've managed to get the grub-install to run without
>>>> errors by copying necessary files from the installed system to the
>>>> running system; but it still does not produce a bootable SD card
>>>> If I copy the files from the USB flash drive to the
>>>> first partition on the SD card, making it a FAT32, and then boot the
>>>> USB flash drive, it somehow comes up running the
>>>> /casper/filesystem.squashfs *on the SD card*
>>> First the obvious. Are you sure you have made a bootable image on the SD
>>> card? Is there
>>> another way to check if it boots from the card? A normal file copy won't
>>> copy the
>>> bootloader to the target device.
>>>
>>> Second is the SD card reader device set up as a bootable device in your
>>> virtual machine?
>>> Setting it up requires (in the command line) a combination of:
>>>
>>> $ vboxmanage storagectl ...
>>>
>>> $ vboxmanage storageattach ...
>>>
>>> https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/UserManual.html
>>>
>>> Chapter 8
>>>
>>> - Harry
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