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

[Bret Busby]

On 14/04/2020, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.
>

Methinks this has kind of digressed from the topic of the thread, and,
mayhaps, should be forming a new thread, or, be abandoned....


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Bret Busby
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