Keep in mind, when you do the update in windows you then don't
necessarily have linux drivers that match the new firmware. i was burned
on this a few months back with the trackpad and i ended up just buying
another one from china that was unupgraded after the trackpad was
upgraded when windows was running. i learned my lesson since then. If
its working and the firmware is not available via fwupdmgr then I am not
loading it. Trying to get any of the groups to deal with it is a pain in
the ass at each step. Eventually Lenovo admitted to me it was there
problem and they had a tool available by request to remove the update
that was applied, but by that point, it was replaced already and this
was not through the support channel that offerred me the tool.
On 12/19/22 11:43 AM, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 2:26 PM Michael D. Setzer II via users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Contacted them, since web site seemed to only have
option to upgrade firmware using a windows program?
Got a reply that that is currently the case, and only option
would be to install windows on machine, or remove drive
and put in windows machine to upgrade??
Yeah, I've grown tired of this. I now file complaints with the
Attorney General's Office. Maybe they will do something about it one
day.
I've got 5 Linux machines at home that all have WD SSD
drives, and a few of the earlier ones have older firmware
that others of the same model..
Don't know if makes any real difference or what
improvements firmware updates would do. Kind of
disappointed that they don't have a Linux option.
Have used my Linux based G4L program to image old
drives to the SSD drives with no problems, and had heard
good things on the drives.
You might try fwupdmgr (1) and the `fwupdmgr update` command.
The rub is, I don't know if fwupdmgr has WD firmware in its database.
Wonder if someone knows of an option. Don't know if
windows program to update firmware might work with
wine or not??
I don't think Wine will work. When I asked about it several years ago
I was ridiculed for asking such a dumb question.
One thing I've been looking into is Rufus and the 'Windows to Go'
thing. It's Windows on a thumb drive. My thinking is, if we can boot
the machine to Windows using the thumb drive, we may be able to
perform the firmware updates. But I have not tried (yet).
The problem with Rufus is, it's not well documented for this use case.
It also lacks a mailing list, so we can't ask the community or lookup
previous questions/answers on the matter. I think the only support
option is email the developer directly, which I have avoided to date.
Jeff
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