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?

  • wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works
    17·
    1 year ago

    You might be missing the gnome app store fwupd connector. You can try using just gnome-firmware directly.

    I have a WD19TBS and it updates just fine in Debian.

    • sado1@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I second this, I use it with a Dell docking station at work (90% sure it’s the same model) and updates for firmware just work on Kubuntu.