Hello, I just got a Framework 16 today (7040 series) and have been trying to get it set up.
I installed ubuntu 24.04 LTS and have been trying to get the firmware updates but have been running into issues. The laptop was shipped with BIOS version 3.05 so I have been trying to update to 4.02.
In the process of trying to get that to work, I discovered that my fwupdate seems to be stuck on version 1.9.31 (if I’m reading the version number there correctly). When I try to download and install the cab file from the version 4.02 update guide I get a message saying that the specified firmware is older than installed.
Any help would be appreciated, Thanks.
The upgrade guide has instructions on how to do a manual update from USB. This is how you need to update when version of fwupdate is less than version 2.
You’ll find instructions to update BIOS from USB here - look for section “Instructions for EFI shell update”:
Is the current BIOS version tied to the available version of fwupdate? Wondering why I can’t just get the latest version of fwupdate first.
Version of LVFS fwupd is tied to the os you are running.
If you want to run the latest then the likes of Fedora or Arch are your best choice of distribution. Me… I prefer stability and therefore very happy with Linux Mint.
You can get a newer version of fwupd through SNAP.
sudo apt remove fwupd
sudo snap install fwupd –classic
reboot the machine
fwupdmgr –version
fwupdmgr refresh –force
fwupdmgr get-updates
sudo fwupdmgr update
Follow prompts for Y, cross fingers, maintain a non 100% battery but charging plugged in, pray to various deities
edit immediately run into permission issues and considering backing out
edit2 back it out then reintroduce it to try few other things find the issue on github consider compiling the newer version than the SNAP has available and start to think fiddling with the hardware to update keyboard and macropad isn’t so bad after having already flashed the BIOS without LVFS.
edit3 why do I do this to myself… swap SNAP channel to latest/edge not validated may not work does not seem to easily revert to backing everything out again
edit4 the RPI drive mentioned in updating the keyboard/numpad/macropad appears mounted in filemanager it looks like the issue I ran into with the SNAP has been solved in a version available from source but not yet on an update channel. Doing it manually without LVFS was dramatically faster and easier at the moment [TRACKING] Updating keyboard and numpad using uf2 file manually oh and make sure you move everything from the folder extracted to the Flash Drive for the BIOS update rather than following the slightly inadequate instructions that don’t work directly Can't update the BIOS (FW16) - #12 by ValiantCM