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  • Re: How to can upgrade my BIOS?

    From John Hasler@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 31 05:10:01 2024
    Don't, if the one you have does everything you need it to do.
    --
    John Hasler
    [email protected]
    Elmwood, WI USA

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  • From Sven Hoexter@21:1/5 to William Torrez Corea on Thu Oct 31 09:50:02 2024
    On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:50:54PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
    My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following date:


    *11/14/2013 *

    The last BIOS in this system (Dell Inspiron 14R 5437) was:

    Hi,
    a while back we created https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates
    to collect various ways to update firmware files including BIOS/EFI.

    I mainly contributed the Dell/Latitude experience and there it
    was pretty straight forward. Maybe that is the same for Inspiron.
    If it is, feel invited to update the page accordingly.

    Nowadays also a lot should be possible via fwupd https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates#fwupd
    though I did not yet try that approach myself.

    Sven

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  • From Erwan David@21:1/5 to Sven Hoexter on Thu Oct 31 10:30:01 2024
    On Thu, Oct 31, 2024 at 09:36:05AM CET, Sven Hoexter <[email protected]> said:
    On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 09:50:54PM -0600, William Torrez Corea wrote:
    My system was Windows, I am using Debian 6.1.112-1 (2024-09-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux but my BIOS is out-of-date; i have the BIOS A07 of the following date:


    *11/14/2013 *

    The last BIOS in this system (Dell Inspiron 14R 5437) was:

    Hi,
    a while back we created https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates
    to collect various ways to update firmware files including BIOS/EFI.

    I mainly contributed the Dell/Latitude experience and there it
    was pretty straight forward. Maybe that is the same for Inspiron.
    If it is, feel invited to update the page accordingly.

    Nowadays also a lot should be possible via fwupd https://wiki.debian.org/Firmware/Updates#fwupd
    though I did not yet try that approach myself.

    I use it with no problem on Dell Latitude and Lenovo Thinkpad.


    --
    Erwan David

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