Dell inspiron n5110 bios update a12
The first step is to get information about your current system. Checking dates on unofficial Dell support web sites suggests that this may also apply to other Dell models since 2010 or even earlier.
Other answers posted to this question may work with older hardware, but I posted this after my experience of upgrading the BIOS of a Dell Inspiron 7520 (vintage 2012). Read no further unless you have time to burn. In the post-Win7 era this answer has outlived its usefulness. Upon running sudo update_firmware I get the following set of errors: E: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2919-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2919Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2930-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2930Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2929-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2929Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0832-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0832Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x294aĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2448Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2946Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2940Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2942Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1002-dev-0xaa28-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1002-dev-0xaa28Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1002-dev-0x95c4-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1002-dev-0x95c4Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x14e4-dev-0x1698-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x14e4-dev-0x1698Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2936-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2936Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2935-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2935Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2934-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2934Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293a-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293aĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0822-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0822Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0592-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0592Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0852-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x1180-dev-0x0852Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x4232-subven-0x8086-subdev-0x1321Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x4232Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293e-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293eĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2a40-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2a40Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2937-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2937Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2938-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2938Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2939-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2939Į: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293c-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x293cĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2a41-subven-0x1028-subdev-0x029fĮ: Unable to locate package pci-firmware-ven-0x8086-dev-0x2a41 My laptop information: Libsmbios version: 2.2.28
#DELL INSPIRON N5110 BIOS UPDATE A12 .EXE#
exe format currently my bios version is A09 but on the driver download site the latest version of bios is A011. I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a vista laptop, but Dell is providing the BIOS update in.