Laptop BIOS upgrade

[sriramcha]

Has anyone tried upgrading the BIOS on Dell laptops?

This is the Dell Windows based update for my Studio 1558 laptop.
http://dell.to/fp5qcj
Would this work using Wine? Is there a Fedora way to apply this update?

[Dr.Diesel]

It won't work in Wine. Use Unetbootin to make a bootable USB stick and flash from that.

yum -y install unetbootin

Then use the FreeDOS option when making the boot stick and you'll be set. Once you've made the boot stick you can copy the flash .exe file over and give it a go.

[sriramcha]

Thanks Dr. Diesel.
I found this link: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php...itory/firmware
There does not appear to be an update for Studio 1558. I will keep the forum posted about how things go.

[droidhacker]

Check if your hardware is compatible with "flashrom"