Latitude C640 BIOS upgrade to A10

[Nick Sharp]

Thanks:

Libsmbios:    0.13.6
System ID:    0x012A
Service Tag:  1W2871S
Express Service Code: 4115441584
Product Name: Latitude C640
BIOS Version: A09
Vendor:       Dell Computer Corporation
Is Dell:      1

Regards
Nick Sharp

Michael E Brown wrote:
> 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
>