On 04/26/2012 07:22 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
Yesterday I picked up from the store all the bits from which to create a new magical computer - which I will be so doing in the next 12 hours or so.
There is an upgrade available to the BIOS on the motherboard - which the installation instructions suggest be done.
However, the darn upgrade file is an *.exe file. I have "unarched" this file and it contains a *bat, an *exe and the actual BIOS upgrade file.
I have never applied a BIOS upgrade while using Linux, and the last time I did apply a BIOS upgrade was some 9 years ago under XP.
The question therefore is: how do I apply this BIOS upgrade when I install openSUSE (12.1)?
Hi Basil, I feel your pain! Four years ago I purchased a new HP desktop that had Vista pre-installed. Of course, the first thing I did was blow away Vista and install openSuSE! But there was a problem. The kernel's Ethernet driver had an "issue" with the motherboard's hardware. A BIOS upgrade was called for. Alas, the upgrade from HP absolutely required the pre-installed version of Vista! FreeDos didn't work. I had to order the reinstall CD from HP to get Vista back onto my desktop. I eventually got the BIOS upgraded, but of course, it didn't fix the problem. I had to purchase a PCI-x Ethernet board and turned off the motherboard's controller. BTW, current kernels work okay with the motherboard, I'm using it right now. Do you really need to upgrade the BIOS? It might work just fine the way it is. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org