Latitude C640 BIOS upgrade to A10

[Michael E Brown]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 02:52:22PM +1000, Nick Sharp wrote:
> I tried under Fedora 7 to use the technique described at:
> http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware#Putting_it_all_together
> 
> to raise the BIOS on a Latitude C640 from A09 to the latest: A10.
> 
> "For Fedora and CentOS:
> 
> # set up repos
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/yum/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash
> # install firmware tools
> yum -y install firmware-addon-dell
> # install BIOS update
> yum -y install $(bootstrap_firmware -b)"
> 
> all went fine, but:
> 
> "update_firmware"
> 
> simply indicated that no update could be found, implying that A09 is 
> the latest, which is not the case.

I need the system model id for your system. Please send me 'getSystemId'
output and I'll take a look.
--
Michael