{"id":137,"date":"2008-02-05T01:00:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/05\/dell-bios-updates-using-linux\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T01:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T05:00:43","slug":"dell-bios-updates-using-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2008\/02\/05\/dell-bios-updates-using-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Dell BIOS updates using Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/direct2dell.com\/one2one\/archive\/2007\/12\/05\/37446.aspx\">http:\/\/direct2dell.com\/one2one\/archive\/2007\/12\/05\/37446.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; be sure the Universe section is enabled in \/etc\/apt\/sources.list, then run as root:<\/p>\n<p>wget -q -O &#8211; http:\/\/linux.dell.com\/repo\/firmware\/bootstrap.cgi | bash<br \/>\naptitude install firmware-addon-dell<br \/>\naptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a)<br \/>\nupdate_firmware<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks Dell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dell provides Ubuntu support for updating the BIOS of Dell systems: http:\/\/direct2dell.com\/one2one\/archive\/2007\/12\/05\/37446.aspx &#8230; be sure the Universe section is enabled in \/etc\/apt\/sources.list, then run as root: wget -q -O &#8211; http:\/\/linux.dell.com\/repo\/firmware\/bootstrap.cgi | bash aptitude install firmware-addon-dell aptitude install $(bootstrap_firmware -a) update_firmware Thanks Dell!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,39],"tags":[76,103,120,191,192,377,444,520,602,605],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux","category-tech","tag-700m","tag-aptitude","tag-bios","tag-dell","tag-dell-700m","tag-laptop","tag-notebook","tag-repo","tag-ubuntu","tag-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}