Will try with non-free multiarch. After doing a bit of research, it turns out the wifi/Bluetooth combo card uses drivers from Realtek.
On Jan 31, 2018 7:51 AM, "Andrew M.A. Cater" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 05:11:31PM -0600, James Byrnes wrote: > > This dilemma is a result of a hackjob, something that normally shouldn't > be > > able to run: loading Linux on a $59 WinBook TW-700. > > > > I downloaded a copy of debian-9.3.0-amd64-netinst via torrent and > extracted > > it to a bootable USB. I had to replace bootx64.efi with bootia32.efi as > > this tablet uses a 32bit EFI while also having a 64bit OS, otherwise it > > would not boot from USB. > > > > Halfway through load installer components from CD, the process fails to > > read the USB and crashes without ability to recover. > > > > Since this tablet only has 1 USB port, I am relegated to using a hub for > > keyboard input. > > > > I believe this issue stems from the fact that the iso was downloaded via > > torrent, and the data could have possibly be corrupted. Hopefully I'll be > > able to obtain a copy from dead-slow HTTP download (forced to use 128kb/s > > cellular data for download). > > Wrong medium - use the multi-arch flavour: that will correctly install > 32 bit UEFI and 64 bit for everything else. > > This is fairly similar to the hacks needed to get Acer Transformer to > work. > > HTH, > > All the best, > > Andy C. > >
