I recently had to find a way to upgrade the firmware on my
Dell 1505n. But the steps I discovered should work for any Dell laptop.
For a dell laptop – these came from a Dell wiki – some of the steps
have problems which are noted. Do the following:
Suggested steps: do not do these – do the one below:
#wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
#aptitude install firmware-addon-dell
#aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a)
#update_firmware
Here is what it *should* be
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi >bootstrap.sh
## they used the wrong shebang
vi bootstrap.sh # change the shebang to #!/bin/bash
chmod +x bootstrap.sh
./bootstrap.sh
aptitude install firmware-addon-dell
aptitude install firmware-tools # they forgot to mention this one
# needed for the next step
aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a) # this one takes a *long* time
# and will report a warning or error with each trial – ultimately it will
# find the right one – and eventually use it
update_firmware # will require a warm reboot – note the firmware upgrade also
# takes some very long seconds to complete.
Enjoy
-g-