Head over to rikomagic. He has lubuntu that is optimised for the mk802. Ran well with the motorola lapdock until my 10 month old got his hands on it. Broke the hdmi connector. :_(
OK, let’s forget about problems with the Mk802 itself.
I downloaded one of the images (Puppy for the Mele) and wrote it to an SD card. The resulting card looks like a traditional MBR partitioned hard disk, with two partitions. The first is a 16MB FAT32 partition. It has a few *.bin files, and a uImage file that is probably the Linux kernel. The second partition is 3.7GB formatted as EXT4, and is a Linux root file system (directories /bin, /dev, /etc, /lib, /usr, and so forth).
If you have a Linux system, you could check your card to see if it resembles the above. If you have a Windows system, you would only be able to see the first partition.
Ok, just tried the suggestion from another forum which also didn't work so now Unetbootin is burning a copy of puppy linux onto it. After that I think I will try Lubuntu using Unetbootin.
Ok, just tried Puppy Linux when made via Unetbootin, that also did not work. It just booted straight into Android. Testing Lubuntu via Unetbootin right now.
I forgot to mention, that command would be useful for looking at the card after it is re-written with a Debian/Ubuntu/Puppy for ARM image.
I’m pretty sure that writing the card with unetbootin or using an ISO image will fail, because those methods will create a card that is bootable on a PC running the x86 architecture.
To get it bootable on the Mk802, you need the image built for the ARM platform. This is the image I’m experimenting with.
did you try the lubuntu from the rikomagic link I posted? It has wifi working and chromium installed. He also shows how to install using windows, mac and linux.
Yes, I have tried both. Right now I'm working on trying out Bodhi Linux. Either later tonight or tomorrow I'm gonna try out that command along with do something else suggested on the other forum.
wifi works for me. there is a wireless config utility you can find somewhere in the programs.
it configures wifi to wlan0 by default which in my case was the wrong wifi adapter.
change the number to your adapters, 3 in my case, and it should start scanning for networks.