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Hi there I'm new to linux but I cant seem to stop myself from trying to install arch on everything recently,
At the moment I have spent a very long time obsessing over putting arch linux and gnome on the HP stream 7 tablet ( 5701na)
I have actually overcome many obstacles mainly installing on 32 bit nightmare atom processors but i've learnt a lot on the way and
I now find myself stumped, I need to download and install the rtl8723bs drivers from this git repo: https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs
at the bottom of the readme they state that they have successfully installed wifi drivers on the HP stream 7:
"Tested on:
Onda v975w
Teclast 3G
HP Stream 7
Dell Venue 8 3000
WinBook TW100 and TW700
Do verify that the device is listed under /sys/bus/sdio/"
^check out that last line, so I paid a visit directory and there ain't nuthin there
Please ask for more info if you need it however specs for hp stream 7 are here: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/hp-stream-7-2019.
Incidently, hwdetect --modules outputs nothing.
I have been working from posts like this link http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Windows/Li … -p/4829188, all posts on the subject are nigh on clones however I haven't heard anyone talk about installing arch on these tablets.
there is also unstable and whingey output messages about baytrail audio being wrong as well as a few kernel panics and hard lockups, the device rejects a swap partition like a bad kidney transplant also, starts of fine and then changes the PARTUUID code.
naturally making the git download fails, it doesnt find a target, I thought I would try and instal lthe patches and follwed patch guide, im new to all this and didnt know which sumthin.c file to patch.
Where do I even start researching the problem?
theres also the goodix touch screen, which has an identicle issue.
I also went ahead and called the mkinitcpio -p linux function onthe system again, I dont truly know what that is, but it did say it failed to find firmware for two modules, not sure if this is relevent though.
Preciate your help and I might add that this tablet is fairly powerful given that they are under £50 new!!
EDIT: Is thre some kind of gnome too lto help with this?
Last edited by devonrevenge (2016-05-01 16:34:58)
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There's an rtl8723 package in the aur, maybe that could help you get started.
see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rtl8723bs-dkms-git/
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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Nah thats the exact repo thats giving me the headache, I quote from it in my post
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maybe ask in less newbie corner
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I had noticed you found that github repo,but you didn't state whether you had tried installing that module manually.
Building & installing the package would have done that for you.
Ok,back to basics :
Have you tried to install the module from hadess repo?
What errors did you get?
In this Intel forum thread another driver is mentioned, located at https://github.com/codeTom/rtl8723bs .
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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It does install, however searching for the hardware with lshw reveals everything but blue tooth, audio and wifi.
I was trying to make the file and it didnt work, I was getting cmake errors 'not targets found' some reason though it did install, at least I think also there's no device listed under /sys/bus/sdio/"
what do you mean by installing manually also? if I as to create the directory and put the software there, would the device detect the hardware in the PCI slot?
YEah I got that other link, I have been pretty thorough regarding blindfiring, I need a bit of direction, how does installing a driver enable the kernel to find the hardware?
Last edited by devonrevenge (2016-05-02 16:22:28)
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so how do you install drivers manually?
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needs compiling a new kernel with speciak binary blobs that is out of scope of the newbie corner
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