[mdlug] Winbook results

Mon Mar 9 11:57:16 EDT 2015

What Winbook model do you have? I guess I'll have to have another crack 
at it. I don't recall if mine had a Realtek card or not.

On 2015-03-08 14:27, Drew wrote:
> 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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