I recently installed Ubuntu 14.10 on a Winbook Tw100 (bay trail) windows 8 tablet. I was going to install 15.04, but it was not able to install (it could only run in LiveCD mode). Surprisingly enough, some things that worked in 15.04 don’t work in 14.10.
Things that don’t work in 14.10, but that did in 15.04:
1. Touchscreen (goodix brand)
2. ACPI (battery detection, power management)I can’t just install Ubuntu 15.04, it won’t install on my tablet (keeps freezing, randomly restarting). Is there any way I could take the working drivers that I need from Ubuntu 15.04, and put them into 14.10 without having to upgrade the entire kernel?
Also, anyone who knows where I can find the realtek rtl8723bs (WiFi/Bluetooth) drivers, that would be much appreciated, they don’t come with any Ubuntu version yet.
Answer
the wifi drivers (bt doesn’t) are available and they must be compiled (so forget to “intall & go”), but it seems (i’ve understood into the nebulous galaxy of intel bay trail’s obscure engineering) to have some problems with the kernel 3.18 of ubuntu 15.04 because on many different moatherboard can’t enumerate correctly.
The reason could be the nature of the adapter, SDIO type, and all they have done for successful start is only on wifi side and without wpa supplicant (so open wifi only), almost until few weeks ago.
The best should be compile manually starting from sources of Ubuntu’s kernel 14.10.
See on this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2249936
and this:https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs/issues/10
I’m sorry to be without a best solution but i’m in the same problem too and
there’s no easy ways at the moment therefore many people is trying to solve and i’m sure soon there will be driver for a good ubuntu experience…
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Source : Link , Question Author : john kieran , Answer Author : Sabax
