I have been racking my brain about this for a while now and now I just need some help because I can’t figure it out.

So I login to my dell account, punch in my service tag number and it brings up info regarding my specific laptop. There are TONS of firmware and drivers that I believe may be missing? But the issue is, all the files are .exe and thats clearly for windows. They have no fedora or rpm supported drivers or firmware that I could find.

Its crucial because I just got a dell wd19tbs docking station and as per the install instructions, there’s a set of firmware/drivers that must be installed prior to setting up the dock

I have lvfs repo enabled, I tried the whole fwupdmgr technique a million times though it never does shit. No firmware or drivers show up in yhe gnome store… So why is this so complicated? How do I install dell drivers and firmware on a fedora system?

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    1 year ago

    You might be missing the gnome app store fwupd connector. You can try using just gnome-firmware directly.

    I have a WD19TBS and it updates just fine in Debian.

  • PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    My Dell Inspiron is updating automatically from fwupd. At least some parts. I didn’t dig deeper there so take this with a grain of salt.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been having issues with fwudp. Maybe I gotta just rehash things and follow a setup and usage guide again

  • iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee
    5·
    1 year ago

    Actually I recall using a bootable USB from Dell I think… it might be on the firmware site. That will let you boot into an OS that can read the exe and update the firmware.

    This was for a dell wyse.

    I only did this once when I first got it. Since then I believe Ubuntu and Fedora gnome both update the firmware right in the software update app.

  • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Those drivers are all for Windows, the only useful thing there is the BIOS updates. Like another user said, transfer the BIOS update (exe) to a USB drive and boot to BIOS - Dell has a utility in the BIOS that can extract the necessary files from the exe and apply the update, no Windows needed.

    Also, use fwupd like others have suggested.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ohhh so the bios itself gives you the drivers and firmware necessary? Like I dont have to manually install each one myself?

        • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
          1·
          1 year ago

          I’m probably misinterpreting this. I have successfully installed the latest bios no problem. its just when you said the bios extracts necessary files, I thought you meant that it installs the proper drivers/firmware for your system