Power Suspend Issue on HP EliteBook 840 G6 Notebook & 18.04 - SOLVED

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 19:52 +0200, Key Schmidt wrote:
> On 2020-04-11 13:07, Liam Proven wrote:
> >[snip]
>
> You are so right

No, he's very, very wrong.

He's completely mistaken regarding my original replies. The vendor
mentions on the original homepage that a different (Windows) computer
could be used to extract the executable, hence it most likely could be
done without a Windows install, by just extracting the executable using
wine. There's no need for the OP to do it with the machine that should
get the BIOS update.

Please read the whole thread. On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 12:50:05 +0200, I
wrote:

>There seems to be the need to download a Windows executable, even to
>get the BIOS upgrade on an USB stick. It probably works on Linux, after
>installing https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/wine .

IOW I mentioned that it is very unusual nowadays that the process to
update the BIOS is complicated, usually no Windows or DOS is required
anymore. The OP seems to have bad luck and seems to suffer from a corner
case, but I covered this, too.

Liam suggested that users always should go with a dual-boot, Windows and
Linux, because BIOS updates might require Windows on the machine that
should get the BIOS update.

Windows is not for free as in beer. IMO suggesting to buy and install
Windows, just to be able to do BIOS updates in corner cases is
ridiculous.

On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:05:16 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
>This is one reason I always recommend people to dual-boot and all my
>own PCs do. I get mocked for this sometimes but it makes life easier.

"Mocked" for very good reasons, since it makes absolutely no sense for
somebody who doesn't need Windows, to buy and install Windows for such a
corner case, as the one you described and that doesn't apply to the OP's
situation at all. In the unusual case that even wine should fail to
extract such a simple Windows executable, the OP likely could asked
somebody who is using Windows, to do it.