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so recently I bought myself an acer switch, tablet/laptop combo (detachable keyboard). Anywho, it came preloaded with windows 10, so I decided to switch over to a linux distro for more space, and speed. So I finally buy an otg cable (there is no usb port ON tablet, only on the keyboard, but you can't boot through that), and ubuntu boots smooth on the otg live usb, no problems.

Before doing this, I kinda figured there would be driver issues. And there is NO Ethernet port, so even more difficult till I get wifi working.

ALL I NEED IS TO GET THE WIFI WORKING

I collected some of my computers wifi information with a script and maybe a few more experienced users could help me.

MY WIFI INFO

Thanks guys!

Casey
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  • Possibly helpful: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2335387 – chili555 Jul 20 '17 at 00:36
  • Hi I tried it too on an Acer Aspire Switch ...for the same reason since it is kinda slow^^ no luck with Ubuntu and the wifi I think it doesn't work... – derHugo Jul 20 '17 at 05:10
  • @chili555 the discussion in your link comes to no conclusion except that it might be a bug but there seems to be no solution to this problem – derHugo Jul 20 '17 at 05:14
  • @Casey I actually managed somehow to boot and install via the keyboard's USB but some distros other than pure Ubuntu already failed during installation... – derHugo Jul 20 '17 at 05:17
  • "the discussion in your link comes to no conclusion" Exactly. There is no known way currently to get the wireless working. – chili555 Jul 20 '17 at 13:27
  • @chilli555 Are you sure? I mean if I connected a USB-to-Ethernet adapter and hooked up wired wifi temporarily, are you sure there are no drivers or no things in my link that show it is a simple problem? Is it just the computer itself? – Casey Jul 20 '17 at 16:39
  • @Casey When chili555 says something about WiFi he's usually correct. Also there' s no such thing as "wired wifi"... WiFi is wireless, it's in the name. Cabled connections are usually Ethernet. You can call it by many names but please not "wifi". –  Jul 21 '17 at 11:38
  • In the link I gave and also in your paste, there is no device showing at all that resembles wireless. In the thread, we suspected it might be an SDIO device and looked in the log for sdio to no avail. I don't know how or what to install for something I can't even see. Do you see any further clues here? dmesg | grep -i sdio – chili555 Jul 21 '17 at 14:48
  • @michaelbay sorry haha you're right! My bad, used to calling it wifi around other people. – Casey Jul 22 '17 at 20:31
  • @chili555 Yes! I'm away on business at the moment until Sunday evening at the soonest, but it is an Sdio device, I'm quite sure. I found my model and everything else, from within windows, but I can't get back to you on it until Sunday. Also found a form with uncompiled drivers for Bluetooth, wireless, and audio, for my exact models, but couldn't compile / run them. I'll get back very soon! And try your command listed. Thank you so much so far lol this has been so frustrating, and I can tell you're very experienced obviously. Slightly new to Linux interworkings. – Casey Jul 22 '17 at 20:36
  • After we see the results of the dmeg, also tell us more about the drivers you have. If the description is lengthy, post it here and give us the link: http://paste.ubuntu.com – chili555 Jul 22 '17 at 21:00
  • @chili555 hey there! Back home :) anywho, I did the "dmesg | grep -i sdio" as you said, and it gave no results, almost like it wasn't even acknowledged, but proceeding to try it a few different ways, simply "dmesg sido" worked (let me know if you want me to try others).

    RESULTS HERE

     – Casey Jul 23 '17 at 19:11
  • @chili555 And here's a little info I can give you from windows:

    Des: "Realtek RTL8723BS Wireless LAN 802.11n SDIO Network Adapter."

    My current driver version is: 3008.33.430.2016.
    Date of driver: 2016-05-31.
    driver files: rtldata.dat, rtwlans.sys, vwifibus.sys (in system 32).

     – Casey Jul 23 '17 at 19:13
  • @chili555 I found a POST on github that seemed promising, so I downloaded the DRIVER to test it, but after I did the "make" command (to compile the driver), there were no results to the command. I do not know if this is because I was on a bootable version of linux instead of installed, but I couldn't install the other drivers either (bt and audio are there somewhere), it just didn't work with "make", and "make install". – Casey Jul 23 '17 at 19:56
  • This is the one I suggest you try: https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs Please explain the exact steps you took. Maybe we can troubleshoot. It should work in a live session; either USB or DVD. – chili555 Jul 23 '17 at 21:38
  • @chili555 I'll do my best to explain, maybe show you screenshots, hopefully that can help and it may be something simple lol. 1st.) I got the driver zip file on a USB with my second pc, dragged it over to the desktop on my onto ubuntu from the usb, and then extracted it, also on the desktop. 2nd.) I tried to compile / install the driver. So I opened the terminal in the extracted driver folder directory, and ran the commands "make", and then "make install", no new files appeared, nothing seemed to change, wifi device was still not discovered, so I assume it didn't install or didn't work – Casey Jul 24 '17 at 04:26
  • @chili555 Here is a screenshot I took after trying the install IMAGE – Casey Jul 24 '17 at 04:29
  • LOL! Looking at the Makefile, it appears to install the firmware only, although it purports to build a driver. Please try this instead: https://github.com/anthonywong/rtl8723bs – chili555 Jul 24 '17 at 12:44
  • @chili555 Oh my ahaha, whether the new driver works or not, that's just great. I'm trying it now!! Fingers crossed – Casey Jul 24 '17 at 17:28
  • @chili555 So closeeee agh. ** IMAGE ** I ran the "make" command, it started compiling correctly, then came to an error about date and time? Lol what? Hope that this may be simple. I couldn't understand much of what it said after. – Casey Jul 24 '17 at 17:40
  • Open the Makefile with a text editor and un-comment the line: #EXTRA_CFLAGS += -Wno-error=date-time # Fix compile error on gcc 4.9 and later by removing only the leading #. Save and close the text editor and try again: make clean and then make and if and only if it 'makes', sudo make install. – chili555 Jul 24 '17 at 19:11
  • @chili555 Good news and possible bad news lol, it installed :) it only gave a warning but completed making, and then I did the make install IMAGE1 , IMAGE2 . But oddly, it says "no network devices available"? What's this about? IMAGE3 Am I supposed to do something else after installing? – Casey Jul 24 '17 at 21:04
  • Let us continue this discussion in chat. – chili555 Jul 24 '17 at 21:16
  • Plz halp :') https://xkcd.com/979 – The Floating Brain Jan 03 '22 at 20:54

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