Re: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-22 Thread Yousef Raffah
Original Message Subject: how to apply bios firmware update? From: Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, July 21, 2006 3:47 pm To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I have just downloaded a bios firmware update for my laptop

how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi I have just downloaded a bios firmware update for my laptop, but it assumes that I run windows: close all programs, execute whatever.exe and reboot. Is there some utility that will allow me to update the firmware running freebsd or temporarily boot in some windows emulated environment?

RE: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Joshua Lewis
Message Subject: how to apply bios firmware update? From: Erik Nørgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, July 21, 2006 3:47 pm To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi I have just downloaded a bios firmware update for my laptop, but it assumes that I run windows

Re: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
Usually firmware updates require that you either run them to extract some files that later you run under DOS or are targeted to run under DOS when you boot directly. Could you tell your brand - it could help a little? FreeDOS or something like this should do - depends what the instructions to the

RE: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Nørgaard Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:47 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: how to apply bios firmware update? Hi I have just downloaded a bios firmware update for my laptop, but it assumes that I run

RE: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI
You might also contact the laptop vendor for an RMA??? Rich Mayo SRI International x76435 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik Nørgaard Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:47 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: how to apply bios firmware update

Re: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Mike Galvez
On Fri, Jul 21, 2006 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Mayo, Richard A RDECOM CERDEC STCD SRI wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Erik N?rgaard Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:47 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: how to apply bios firmware

Re: how to apply bios firmware update?

2006-07-21 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Dimitar Vasilev wrote: Usually firmware updates require that you either run them to extract some files that later you run under DOS or are targeted to run under DOS when you boot directly. Could you tell your brand - it could help a little? FreeDOS or something like this should do - depends