[Slackbuilds-users] BIOS Firmware Upgrade Kit

[JK Wood]

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, JK Wood wrote:
>
>  In any case, the Dell bios update tool, libsmbios, already exists on
>> Slackbuilds.org, and works well.
>>
>
> JK,
>
>  I'll look more closely at this and contact Alan. The blurb on
> slackbuilds.org says it provides info on the BIOS, not that it will
> upgrade
> it. But, it may well be a starting point.
>
> Much thanks,
>
> Rich
>
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The functionality you're looking for is /usr/sbin/dellBiosUpdate-compat, and
I can assure you it's there - I've used it several times to update my bios
on this Dell Latitude D830.

--JK
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