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Firmware is a type of software that is required to operate a hardware product on the lowest level. Relevant examples include BIOS and firmware blobs for devices such as wireless cards.

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I have Kubuntu 18.04 installed on an old laptop, and what's happening is that the Wi-Fi won't turn on. I don't know if it happened after a power outage because I don't have a battery, and when the ...
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We have these new laptops from dell (max premium 16) and when we install the OS (jammy) on them WiFi/Bluetooth and camera is not working. A solution to fix WiFi/Bluetooth is to install a newer kernel ...
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Out of nowhere, my laptop is missing the Wi-Fi and Ethernet drivers. I tried USB tethering, but it didn't work. I installed some packages, but still no success. Has anyone else experienced this?
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I have a two part question. - How can I get the "missing" firmware files in order to update? Running the fwupdmgr command, I get the following "no available firmware updates". ...
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I keep getting this error, is there a fix or work around for it?
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I have a problem on Ubuntu desktop version. I'm experiencing an error message "checks failed" in security tab. Why is this happening and is there a way to fix this? I already updated the ...
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Last year I bought a Dell G15 5530. It came with Ubuntu 22 LTS. I decided to change OS to Ubuntu 24, and it worked perfectly for a year until recently. After an update I lost wifi access: after boot ...
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I've always used Windows 10 on this machine, and did the BIOS updates only when Lenovo Vantage told me to. This week I've been playing with installing Linux (dual boot with Win10). Today I installed ...
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**System Details: ** OS: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Hardware: Lenovo IdeaPad (Model: 81SY) BIOS Version: BHCN41WW WiFi Adapter: Intel Corporation Cannon Lake PCH CNVi WiFi (rev 10) Kernels Installed: 6.11.0-17-...
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New to Linux here The Firmware Updater tells a firmware update is available When I click update to latest it asks me if I want to update to version 2.33.0, and I click yes. It installs and prompts me ...
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If I click on the available my UEFI system resource Tablefirmware update from 1.13.0 to 1.14.2, the software gets downloaded but then a window saying Failed to install firmware! (Action was not ...
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September 5, 2025: 2025-09-05T16:59:15:575866124Z Attempted to update Linux-Firmware File: linux-firmware_20240318.git3b128b60-0ubuntu2.17_amd64.deb I seem to be getting a message of: 500 Internal ...
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here's the error message: "Package download failed:E: http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu plucky-updates/main amd64 linux-firmware amd64 20250317.git1d4c88ee-0ubuntu1.6 is not (yet) available (500 ...
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Wi-Fi not working The main error message from dmesg [ 9.331463] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: Failed to start RT ucode: -110 [ 9.331465] iwlwifi 0000:00:14.3: WRT: Collecting data: ini trigger 13 fired (...
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Running on a Dell XPS-9310 Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS and getting error when upgrading firmware. I've tried to upgrade shim and grub and both seem up to date. Please advise. briano@briano-XPS-13-9310:~$ sudo ...
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