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?
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