I just spent three hours trying to update the firmware on my Dell dock from a Linux environment. Solution: quietly weep, revert to Windows (for a few minutes to run the .exe from Windows boot disk).
Before anyone starts trying to troubleshoot it, yes, I tried all the things in fwupdmgr. Even went so far as to install snap because Dell’s Linux tool required it, and that failed as well.
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Next time, you’ll know to check the fwupd database before a purchase.
Can’t tell if serious
The updates for Dell docks are in that database. They just fail most of the time. Dell told people to power cycle the dock and closed the issue on GitHub.
oh, that is the cartoonist from Exploding Kittens. I’ll add that to my bookmarks.
You forgot step 2! Quietly weep
Beatles: While my backup gently weeps…
wouldn’t work from a virtual machine?
Is that even possible?
depends on the device, but i have a VM just for this purpose. the device passes through to the VM and i update the firmware from there.
The problem is obvious:
you learned Java
There’s FreeDos too, you just throw the exe on there and boot to it and run the exe via the dos prompt. I know Linux should let you too.
I wonder if hirens would have done it. I have no qualms with running a firmware update through a Windows environment. My fear, however unfounded, is that I could only get as far as a firmware erase and not complete the write properly.
That is always a concern. Backup plan was
rm -rf /dock /selfWell, everything in Linux is a file. I don’t see a problem as long as you are in the studies sudoers group.
