Hi,
Thanks a lot for digging into this. Is there a way to get dell_rbu on Fedora 23? The stuff
in your repository appears to be for F22 only.
I'd like to upgrade the firmware on a Dell Inspiron laptop (DMI: Dell Inc. Inspiron
7548/0AM6R0, BIOS A00 11/19/2014). Although most people mention servers when posting about
dell_rbu, this Ubuntu howto says that the same kernel module and tool set should be
applicable to laptops as well:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DellBIOS
Is there any chance that this could work for my laptop? Sadly, despite what the Ubuntu
wiki says, the BIOS .exe file doesn't work in wine and doesn't produce the .hdr
file. It just hangs instead. (Here's the .exe file:
http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId...)
This makes me wonder if the update could instead run from a FreeDOS boot flashdisk,
considering the note about the "universal format" of the .exe file. But sadly
enough, FreeDOS doesn't work with UEFI. I'm not really sure whether switching the
machine to the legacy BIOS emulation mode that could hopefully boot FreeDOS would actually
make it possible to update the firmware...
Anyway, suggestions are more than welcome in this case. :-)
Cheers,
Andrej