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?

  • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
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    1 year ago

    Thanks, so how would that work? just launch the bootable usb and it takes you to an interface for the windows updates?

    • SteveTech@programming.devEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Oh no, you copy all the firmware updates onto the USB too (as well as Windows), then then run them from command prompt in the recovery menu.