Ok, I'm expecting a reply along the lines of "um have fun, and good luck, you'll need it"
I've installed ubuntu 14.04.1 on my Pipo W2. It's a windows 8.1 bay trail tablet, the wifi chip in it is a realtek 8723bs wifi/bt chip. This is not supported of course by ubuntu. so no wifi right now. Ubuntu boots with no problem, and I've got grub2 configured now for the stupid 32 bit uefi setup. I've found the following info to build a driver for the wifi: https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723as
This is from someone who's doing similar work on a different bay trail tablet with the same wifi chip.
Other problems with this tablet that might be relevant to answers: It boots 14.04 ubuntu just fine. but wont boot 14.10 at all. the screen goes weird even with video=VGA-1:800x1280e reboot=pci,force in the command line, and no quiet or splash. Hard to troubleshoot what's going on with 14.10 when I cant even read any text to post, so I'm stuck working with the older kernel in 14.04
The problem is, while I've been using lubuntu for a couple years, I don't know anything about how to turn this into a working wifi driver to get it working. More to the point, I don't know enough to really be sure of what questions to ask, which really makes it harder to just google the information and research it. I am not looking for someone to spoon feed me step by step instructions, just for someone to point me in the right direction, so I can try to work this out. Even if it takes a couple months of reading and experimenting to get it to work, I want to get this working and learn as much as I can in the process. Anyone help me with what I should be looking up?
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