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- Stonekeeper, on 12/06/2007, -1/+18"wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi | bash"
Wow. That's one of the biggest NO-NOs. I'm sure it's fine coming from DELL but don't do anything like this with untrusted sources kids! - stix213, on 12/06/2007, -0/+11I think you missed the point of Stonekeeper's comment. It isn't the wget part that is the big no no. It is piping a wget download directly to bash while in a root terminal, without even taking a look at the file you downloaded, that is the big no no.
- depro9, on 12/06/2007, -0/+10http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/l ...
I just bought one. - martalli, on 12/06/2007, -0/+10I wonder if they have my m1210 laptop supported. The idea of a separate repo to support vendor's hardware or vendor's software is an excellent idea. Until hardware is completely open, this is a great solution for deb-based distro. I wouldn't be surprised if it would work well for other distros, too
- jessethouin, on 12/06/2007, -1/+10This should be the only comment visible here.
I feel the need to reiterate: DO NOT TYPE UNKNOWN COMMANDS INTO THE TERMINAL. In fact, if you didn't know how to run this command in the first place, I would highly recommend you find someone with vast amounts of experience in Linux to help you with this. Firmware is much more difficult to repair than a corrupt hard disk. - litkaj, on 12/06/2007, -0/+8Better performance, stability, and hardware compatibility.
- MikeCerm, on 12/06/2007, -0/+5I tried 7.10 on my m1210, and everything worked flawlessly from the Live CD, no special repo or configuration needed. My 1210 has Intel graphics, Intel 3945ABG wireless, and no webcam or Bluetooth. If you've got a different configuration, your experience may be different.
- nkassi, on 12/06/2007, -0/+4Well, I find this great. At least they are making sure that hardware issues they control are taken cared off.
- nanostream, on 12/06/2007, -1/+5Is anyone else annoyed by the pics next to the stories?
- stalefries, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3Any chance they still support the Inspiron 3800?
- arbulus, on 12/06/2007, -0/+3I'm not sure I understand this article. What sort of BIOS upgrades are being discussed here and who would benefit from it? It doesn't really explain it all that well.
- RickyBennett, on 12/06/2007, -1/+4what do bios updates offer any ways ??
- martalli, on 12/07/2007, -0/+3We just bought two for our office.
- jessethouin, on 12/06/2007, -1/+4"This should be the only comment visible here." - I meant Stonekeeper's, not mine. I am self-centered and conceited, but not blatantly so. :)
- martalli, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2I have the webcam. It is not supported right out of the box, but requires the uvc drivers be built and then it works. owever, if they have that package in their repo (for example), that's all the less work for me. Oh, the card reader works for sd cards, but not for xd cards...
- InferiorWang, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2I take it you've never reflashed your bios with a floppy disk.
The lack of details would bother me, but rebooting is not unusual at all. - aldenhg, on 12/06/2007, -1/+3I'm gonna guess no.
- earlycj5, on 12/06/2007, -0/+2Back around Redhat 7.3 it offered a fix that allowed me to have more than 256 color on my Inspiron 2600 IIRC.
- SteveMax, on 12/07/2007, -0/+2Do:
wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bootstrap.cgi > untrusted-script.sh
less untrusted-script.sh
And see what it does. But yes, the way they put it in the instructions was awful. - neko, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1bash: "404 Page Not Found": command not found ;)
- victorh86, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1It's kinda shady.
Hey look at what I got! I have a shiny new bios update for some 200+ dell systems, but I won't tell you anything else and release it anyway. Enjoy! - arbulus, on 12/07/2007, -0/+1That's what I'm thinking. Especially where it says "A reboot is required for the flash to actually happen."
Um, I want to know if the damn thing worked BEFORE I reboot, because if it didn't, my mobo is dead.
Seems really shady. Especially with the comments that some folk said down below about piping outputs into bash without knowing what it's doing. The whole thing just makes me uncomfortable. - Megatog615, on 12/06/2007, -0/+1Is there a firmware for the Inspiron 2650?
And maybe unlock HT support?(cat /proc/cpuinfo shows the ht flag) - longbow486, on 12/06/2007, -1/+0this sucks, i should have waited to buy my 531 till they included it in the 'n' list, then i wouldnt have had to pay for the windows license, at least i got XP pro on it, not Home
- mayaftw, on 12/06/2007, -6/+1If you're ever in doubt of a command you can simply "man wget" to see what the switches mean. In this case -q means quiet and -O outputs a file.
- brite2006, on 12/06/2007, -16/+1You mean they still sell them?
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