I am using ubuntu 18 with a pc (asus motherboard)
and trying to update the firmware using this
After starting the service using those commands nothing happens
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo service fwupd start
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
sudo fwupdmgr update
Nothing happens
I also tried the following, and nothing happend
sudo fwupdmgr update -v
sudo fwupdmgr update --force
sudo fwupdmgr update --show-all-devices
Nothing happens, no output no nothing.
Ideas?
Best Answer
tldr;
fwupdmgr get-updates
should show you available firmware updates (from official channels) for all of your supported & connected devices.If it shows you no output at all, it means that no updates were found (usually not published by the vendor) into the official channels (fwupd.org).
You can use
fwupdmgr get-devices
to get a list of updateable devices.Also, if your device vendor has published a xxxxxxxx.cab file to be used to update from linux, you can use
fwupdmgr install xxxxxxxx.cab
to schedule the firmware update upon next reboot.This was tested less than a week ago (2019-06-29) in a Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga X1 3rd gen1.
fwupdmgr get-updates
shows highest BIOS version as 1.34, but I manually installed version 1.35 from a downloaded xxxxxxxx.cab file from Lenovo's support site.Note: new firmware updates should also appear into updates section of gnome software app.
Hope it helps.