[TRACKING] Updating keyboard and numpad using uf2 file manually

Framework Laptop 16 Linux
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And people wonder why it has taken so long for Linux to get a decent toehold in the market - really it has taken Microsoft making Windows so bad with Win11 that it is driving people like me off Windows. I have dabbled with Linux before, but it was very much the blind being led by nobody.

Yeah, that is the bit that was confusing in the instructions. If the instructions had said “remove the touchpad” it would have made more sense.

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Yeah, that was a painful drawback all the way back. But that’s almost a non-issue nowadays thanks to Flatpak, Podman, Steam Runtime and immutable/atomic distros.

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Thanks again @Richard - I’m running Linux Mint 22.2 (Kernel 6.8.0 and fwupd 1.9.83) - at this stage with everything working fine I remain curious but not curious enough to spend the time to pursue this any further. Having said that I do suspect the older version of fwupd.

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Hope it’s ok to react here with a related question. I am also trying to do the manual update so I have been trying to use the uf2 file as well but I can not move it to the RPI-2 drive. I can see the drive and open it but cant move the file onto is. Would anyone here know what I am doing wrong? Thanks.

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Hi @Ricarda_Braukmann, perhaps a silly question but have you tried to just drag and drop the file?

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Not a silly question but yes I have. I can drag and drop the file into other folders but not onto that drive… Also tried cut and paste but seems like I cant drag / put it there…

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Did you drag the touchpad down as per instructions?

From an earlier post in this topic:

"The RPI-2 drive appears in file manager after pressing the left and right alt keys.

The instructions initially confused me as well especially the one to drag the touchpad down - once I realised they were referring to the physical component it all went smoothly."

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What OS?
And is it one of the uf2 release files from Framework?

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Thanks for the help - I tried again just now after rebooting my laptop and then I was able to drag the file and it seemed to work as in the manual.

I am not sure why I couldnt drag it into the drive the first time but it worked now :slight_smile:

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Greetings folks, reminder that we always recommend checking our knowledge base first.

Covers keyboard, numpad and macropad.

The points above about the confusing step, will be noted for an update to the article.