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
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    9 months ago

    As far as I had last heard, most laptop (and phones) batteries have charging circuits that are designed to let the battery discharge a bit to prevent the health from being degraded quickly - not all of them actively report that process though and tells the OS it’s at 100%, so that the user doesn’t wonder why their charge is dropping while it’s plugged in.

    I’m not sure if that is all the same case, as the only laptop that I’ve had for a while is a really old MacBook Pro that runs Fedora, but I don’t use it super often because I prefer my desktop - so I don’t keep up with a lot of laptop-oriented stuff unfortunately.

    • Macaroni9538@lemmy.mlOP
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      9 months ago

      I changed the charging option in bios to “primarily use AC” or something along those lines, so hoping that helps prevent possible problems