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?

  • funkajunk@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    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
      1·
      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
          2·
          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