Arch Linux on RDP Thinbook 1310-EC1

[Vonter]

Booted and installed Arch Linux on a 1310-EC1. All the major things work fine, till now I have found only two minor problems which I haven't gotten around to try and fix:

1. Wi-Fi doesn't work after resuming from suspend.
2. Wi-Fi card is unable to enter monitor mode. I get this using iwconfig:
   Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ;

If I find a fix for these, I will report back.
Otherwise, the device works great. Thanks for the work you put into getting great Linux support on this.
Also, I have added a page on the Arch Linux wiki for this model.

[sundarnagarajan]

I have the 14-inch and the 11.6 inch RDP Thinbook models. I also have a Chuwi Hi12 that uses the same Cherry Trail chipset and the same r7823bs WiFi driver.

On all these models, Wifi works pretty much perfectly on resume from suspend. Don't know what is getting in your way, but likely it will depend on:

• Kernel version
• Suspend script on Arch Linux (systemd?)
• Network interface startup scripts on Arch Linux (systemd ?)
• Resume script on Arch Linux (systemd ?) - script under /lib/systemd/system-sleep

I tried iwconfig wlan0 mode Monitor on the Chuwi Hi12 (the modelI had close at hand), and I get the same error you got. Perhaps the r8723bs driver does not support Monitor mode? I could not find any links on this.

I see you were able to use my repository and get everything working oin Arch Linux. I also looked at your Arch Linux wiki page. Like most Arch Linux users, you look very knowledgeable :-)

Are you interested in helping me work on the following items that can help other Arch Linux users:

• I have a bootutils repository that is used by this rdp-thinbook-linux repository. I have a small "framework" for unpacking and re-packing ISOs with some ability to put in distribution-specific code. My bootutils repository currently only supports Ubuntu and derivatives (and perhaps non-Ubuntu Debian distributions). If you know the layout of the Arch Linux live ISO, you could help with creating unpack-repack code for Arch Linux Live ISOs

• I have a kernel_build repository that used by this rdp-thinbook-linux repository. That repository contains shell scripts to download and build a linux kernel. Most of it is distribution-independent, but some parts - see below are distribution specific - if you are interested and know about how to build a kernel on Arch Linux, you can help with making these scripts Arch Linux compatible. Distribution-specific parts:

  • Specifying required packages and checking whether required packages are installed
  • Building an Arch Linux package from new kernel - for Debian / Ubuntu, kernel.org vanilla Makefile already contains a target - bindeb
  • Building a "meta-package" that will pull in a particular kernel version
  • Push a signed Arch Linux package to the Arch Linux equivalent of a Launchpad PPA - is it AUR?

• All my remasterin scripts in this rdp-thinbook-linux repository are Ubuntu / Debian oriented. It would be great if we can create Arch Linux scripts and choose appropriately based on the ISO being remastered

Let me know if you're interested