[Slackbuilds-users] BIOS Firmware Upgrade Kit

[gmartin]

I had no idea this was available. I upgraded with a windows boot disk last
year.  Psyched to go try check it out.  Thanks

\\Greg



On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 2:37 PM, JK Wood <joshuakwood at gmail.com> wrote:

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>   On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:28 PM, JK Wood <joshuakwood at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>   On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>wrote:
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>>> 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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> Also, see http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/ for the bios
> update files themselves.
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> /usr/sbin/smbios-sys-info to grab your system tag (the dev_0x???? part of
> the filename) and bios version
>
> --JK
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