Unable to update bios on ubuntu for vostro 1710

[Matt Domsch]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:35:38PM +0100, Benoni Hamilton wrote:
> So, is there anywhere we can get some sort of compatability list from then?

We do keep a list of systems we know firmware-tools doesn't work on.
But by "we", I mean the Linux Engineering team, not everyone at Dell.
Being a fairly large company with many products, many of which are not
sold with Linux, we tend to find out about problems only after people
have bought a system, installed Linux on it, and then find us. :-)

http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Firmware/Systems_Missing_RBU

is the list as I know it right now.  I added the Vostro 1710 based on
this discussion.

As for the question of using 'biosdisk', I wish that were possible.
But it appears that the Vostro 1710 BIOS updater expects to be running
in a Windows environment, and does not work in a DOS environment.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist, Dell Office of the CTO
linux.dell.com & www.dell.com/linux