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Dell inspiron n5010
Good evening to everyone,
First time posting here and if it wasn't for the problem I have I would not even post here. :)
First to you dell - this is my 5-th laptop from dell - boy I loved my previous 4 ones - no problem what so ever, all running different distros of Linux. Thank you for the those!
My 5-th laptop on the other had is n5010 - running on ubuntu 10.10 - no problems so far - all the drivers are found and it works great, except two issues :
1. The cpu fan is like a hair dryer :). It makes more noise then "kills" the heat. The cpu usage is under 2%!! and the fan is so loud like the laptop is using a couple of extremely resource intensive tasks. This is obviously not a Linux kernel issue with n5010 - lot's of people using windows have confirmed.
May be a bios update could help - I thought. Tried to get one but without luck so far. Here is what I did:
$sudo apt-get install libsmbios-bin
$sudo getSystemId
Libsmbios version: 2.2.26
Product Name: Inspiron N5010
Vendor: Dell Inc.
BIOS Version: A04
System ID: 0x0447
Service Tag:
Express Service Code: <ADMIN NOTE:Service tag & Express service code removed per privacy policy>
Asset Tag:
Property Ownership Tag:
Went to the : http://linux.dell.com/repo/firmware/bios-hdrs/
But the systemID is not present. So dell of other users of the forum, may be someone could give me an indication of how do I upgrade the Bios on this laptop from Linux?
Best Wishes,
Eugene.
wind57
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January 31st, 2011 10:00
Did not expect for a no answer. You have no idea how much honor you lost dell - last time I buy a product from you.
Eugene.
Telson A
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January 31st, 2011 13:00
Hi Eugene
For Linux please post in Linux Forum for better support.
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/3525.aspx
And as for your question go through the following page.
http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Repository/firmware
wind57
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February 10th, 2011 09:00
It has nothing to do with Linux! It is obvious that it is Dell's problem - but Dell will never admit. It happened before with Latitude - a very known story.
Well good thing we still have Lenovo Thinkpad! :)
Cheers,
Eugene.