I have been racking my brain about this for a while now and now I just need some help because I can’t figure it out.

So I login to my dell account, punch in my service tag number and it brings up info regarding my specific laptop. There are TONS of firmware and drivers that I believe may be missing? But the issue is, all the files are .exe and thats clearly for windows. They have no fedora or rpm supported drivers or firmware that I could find.

Its crucial because I just got a dell wd19tbs docking station and as per the install instructions, there’s a set of firmware/drivers that must be installed prior to setting up the dock

I have lvfs repo enabled, I tried the whole fwupdmgr technique a million times though it never does shit. No firmware or drivers show up in yhe gnome store… So why is this so complicated? How do I install dell drivers and firmware on a fedora system?

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Out of curiosity, what options were you looking to configure? Since I’m not familiar with these docking stations, I wasn’t even aware they had configuration options haha.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have no idea lol I just figured there would be some sort of app or gui for it so you can tweak settings or what not. not gonna lie but the dell documentation for this dock is terrible. for instance, if it’s always plugged into your laptop, the battery will always be at 100%; isn’t that terrible for your battery?