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?
Hmmm no recollection of yhe name of that program? Drivers and firmware for dell are only available for windows 10,11 and Ubuntu like 20.4 or something. Wtf! This shouldnt be so difficult
Yeah it’s confusing… looking around it may have been the this.
https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000126353/how-to-download-the-dell-wyse-usb-imaging-tool
And the firmware file I believed used was an exe. I think I put the firmware exe in the root of the USB or something then was able to run it somehow after booting to the live USB made by the tool above?
I could be wrong. I forget where I found the info to do it.
Thanks man. I don’t ever recall drivers and firmware being this difficult on debian based distros