extract_hdr problems

[John White]

I am trying to update the BIOS on some Dimension E-521s.  We have been 
having flaky issues with ACPI.  I added the repo and downloaded the 
necessary tools.  We are running RHEL5.

When I run extract_hdr on the EXE I downloaded from support.dell.com I 
initially got a pycompat error.  I modified the extract_hdr file to 
import firmwaretools as that is where pycompat was installed under 
/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages.  This fixed that error.  Now when I 
run the command:

extract_hdr -i DME521-010110.EXE -o BIOS/

It outputs this:

attempt extract: /usr/local/src/DME521-010110.EXE

The only generate file is config.ini which contents are as follows:

[main]
ini_path = /usr/local/src/BIOS/out/config.ini

[processed_files]
/usr/local/src/dme521-010110.exe = UNPROCESSED: Version 
[('extract_bios', '1.4'), ('extract_lsi', '1.9')] unable to process

[out_files]


If I do a locate extract_bios and extract_lsi both appear under:

/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages

Any thoughts? Suggestions?

Thanks,

John White