Dell BIOS updates

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 03:30:17PM -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 3:20 PM MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2021 at 3:03 PM Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > > You don't mention the exact model, and that will probably be relevant.
> >
> > It's a Dell Inspiron 3785.
> >
> > > Have you tried searching for your model on https://fwupd.org/?
> > No, I shall.  Thanks!
> 
> I looked there, but the documentation on how to use the site and the
> app they provide is not clear to me.  Maybe I'm just feeling old, and
> there's no step-by-step instructions on how to use it that I saw.

There's a "Search for firmware" box right at the top, and
https://fwupd.org/lvfs/docs/users.  Quite a few Dell devices are listed
as supported on https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/#dell, but it looks like
your model isn't among them, so that's no use to you.

(If your device were supported, then firmware updates are integrated
into GNOME Software and KDE Discover, or you can poke it from the
command line using fwupdmgr.  Sounds like this won't work for you,
though.)

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]