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?

  • PropaGandalf@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    My Dell Inspiron is updating automatically from fwupd. At least some parts. I didn’t dig deeper there so take this with a grain of salt.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      9 months ago

      I’ve been having issues with fwudp. Maybe I gotta just rehash things and follow a setup and usage guide again