Jumper ezbook 3, Elementary. No wifi, no build-essential, no linux-headers.. not much at all.

eth_gram · 02-07-2018, 05:14 AM

Like subject says...
Installed Elementary OS Loki on my Jumper EZbook 3. It boots (from rEFInd usb), but I have no Wifi, no build-essentials, no linux-headers, can't install *.deb, downloaded both build-e and headers in deb.
I'm starting to loose it here, been working to get El OS on it for about a week. Finally got it going, but a machine without internet isn't that useful... any help is welcome. I really really really don't want to be forced to use this thing called Windows. Very much not.

wpeckham · 02-07-2018, 05:48 AM

#1 that reads like a faulty, minimal, or incomplete install of Elementary. I recommend the FULL install for those thin devices where WIFI may be problematic.

#2 that device might have the Realtek RTL8723BE chipset for WIFI. Some of those Jumper machines use one chipset for both WIFI and Bluetooth. I have read of other cases where that was mis-detected and the wrong driver used. You might want to check that.

eth_gram · 02-08-2018, 02:19 AM

The human that respun the ISO had the same error (it says it cannot install GRUB), but he said it was just to ignore, since it boots using rEFInd.
I have blacklisted:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
and adding line
Code:
blacklist rtl8xxxu

This did not work.

Is there any way I can install the build-essentials and linux-headers without internet? I have the *.deb files, but the won't run/install. Don't know if that would have any real effect, but right now I can't really do anything!

AwesomeMachine · 02-19-2018, 05:47 PM

There are ezbook 3s without wireless. Maybe you should check on that with lspci. To install a deb file

Code:

$ sudo dpkg -i package_file.deb