I found the steps described at http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Tech/libsmbios_dellBiosUpdate indeed worked - downloading the correct bios.hdr file manually and installing it using...
I found that the step... aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a) ...described at... http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware ...seemed to generate no valid package identifiers for the repository it was querying, hence there was no version 17 of the firmware placed in the local directory where the update_firmware program can find it. I guess dell isn't keeping their repo up to date with .deb packages for their bioses. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/658180 Title: Current BIOS images not available via firmwaretool -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
