I have an XPS15 9500 that is running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I have kept the BIOS up-to-date (currently at 1.28.0) but at startup I am always informed that there are two out-of-date firmware packages:
- Thunderbolt Controller 43.0 -> 60.0
- WD19 Device 01.00.36.00 -> 01.00.36.01 The latter is for the WD19TB dock. I have tried to install these many times without success.
The Dell support site proposes Windows installers for these firmware packages. But I have never run Windows on this machine! (It came with Windows 10 installed, but I immediately formatted the drive and installed Ubuntu. That cuts me off from any Dell support!)
I plan to upgrade to 24.04 LTS as soon as it is available. I would like to have all of the system firmware up-to-date, unless it is really unnecessary.
Any suggestions on how to proceed? Thanks in advance ...
/added 26 may 2024 12:10 UTC/
I ran fwupdmgr :
$ fwupdmgr get-devices
XPS 15 9500
│
│ ...
│
├─WD19TB:
│ │ Device ID: 570867f4ddda9915445da59bd85cd0e0e507270e
│ │ Summary: High performance dock
│ │ Current version: 01.01.00.07
│ │ Vendor: Dell Inc. (USB:0x413C)
│ │ Install Duration: 1 minute
│ │ GUID: cd357cf1-40b2-5d87-b8df-bb2dd82774aa
│ │ Device Flags: • Updatable
│ │ • Supported on remote server
│ │ • Device stages updates
│ │ • Device can recover flash failures
│ │ • Device is usable for the duration of the update
│ │ • Signed Payload
│ │
│ │ ...
│
│ ...
│
├─Thunderbolt host controller:
│ Device ID: f58c66bcd299fdb50f378d8682fabea77b4abd70
│ Summary: Unmatched performance for high-speed I/O
│ Current version: 56.00
│ Vendor: Dell (THUNDERBOLT:0x00D4, TBT:0x00D4)
│ GUIDs: 86690f6b-9493-5d1d-83f9-06d10be118a5
│ 361351ad-1a46-5a42-b7fe-13c9d8a7fc40
│ daeedfff-3bd8-5c15-9586-6bfe466b076a
│ 0257530f-0fd5-5f43-a478-465a9a10fefe
│ Device Flags: • Internal device
│ • Updatable
│ • System requires external power source
│ • Device stages updates
│ • Signed Payload
│
│ ...
________________________________________________
Devices that have been updated successfully:
...
• WD19TB (01.01.00.05 → 01.01.00.07)
...
• Thunderbolt controller in Dell dock (43.00 → 60.00)
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Then :
$ sudo fwupdmgr update
Devices with no available firmware updates:
• DELL097D:00 04F3:311C
• Integrated Webcam HD
• Thunderbolt host controller
• UEFI Device Firmware
• UEFI Device Firmware
• UEFI dbx
Devices with the latest available firmware version:
• Package level of Dell dock
• RTS5413 in Dell dock
• RTS5487 in Dell dock
• VMM5331 in Dell dock
• WD19TB
• KXG60PNV2T04 NVMe KIOXIA 2048GB
• System Firmware
I then did a cold boot, and still the system reports:
