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how the heck do I install dell drivers and firmware on fedora 38 workstation? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago by Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dell often has bootable DOS stick instructions to launch the exe

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Man I need more info on this. I haven't come across anything like that in the dell documentations

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000145519/how-to-create-a-bootable-usb-flash-drive-using-dell-diagnostic-deployment-package-dddp

This isn't the one I followed but it is close. You only need the disk formated to fat32 and the dos files listed, as well as the exe file from dell for what you are updating. You boot to it and run the exe file. There is another site somewhere that explains how to make a does boot disk. This is how I updated my Linux Dell machines bios to new version

[–] Macaroni9538@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Wow I never saw that document in my searching. Thanks for that. May as well give it a shot

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

https://www.howtogeek.com/136987/how-to-create-a-bootable-dos-usb-drive/ This s another method, think it may have been what I used. It was like 5 years ago so memory is foggy on building the stick itself. But being on Linux and seeing a BIOS update out I was initially like ah shit, but this made it easier than a dual boot setup