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Mon Mar 9 17:15:07 EDT 2015

Tw700. The cheeeep one, with 1G memory and 16G SSD.

On 3/9/15, rborromeo at the5spot.com <rborromeo at the5spot.com> wrote:
> 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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