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Questions tagged [firmware]

This tag is for questions related to the ROM BIOS of a computer, which may contain only elementary basic functions of a device and may only provide services to higher-level software. Firmware such as the program of an embedded system may be the only program that will run on the system and provide all of its functions.

Firmware such as the ROM BIOS of a personal computer may contain only elementary basic functions of a device and may only provide services to higher-level software. Firmware such as the program of an embedded system may be the only program that will run on the system and provide all of its functions.

Reference

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firmware

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is it possible to load a routers firmware into a vmware (or similar) virtual machine to test before loading it to the actual hardware?

I want to load some router firmware onto a virtual machine to run some testing/analysis without actually putting it on the router hardware. Is this possible and how would I go about doing it? Thanks :) edit: it would be various routers and firmwares…
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System Seller Firmware Update Policy IBM

I've heard that IBM expects from their sellers/partners to update machines before shipping to customers to the most recent firmware (uEFI/AMM/IMM/RSA etc.) releases. Can anyone comment on that one?
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bootable CD to upgrade firmware

We have a DL380 G6 and we want to put the latest BIOS firmware on a bootable CD-ROM. The bootable USB installer that HP provides works great, but we want a bootable CD-ROM instead, because we have many servers and a CD is easier to duplicate. The…
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HP Procurve Access Point thinks it is another model

I have two HP Procurve Wireless Access Point 420, model number J8130B. One of them works great, and the other isn't able to have its wireless configured. I have tried a factory reset of configuration. It was handed to me by a coworker who said…
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Is mismatched firmware on drives in a raid-6 a bad thing?

I recently expanded a raid-1 to a raid-6 with six drives. I ordered all four of the new drives from the same place, and all of them were advertised to be the same drives as the original two--Seagate 15krpm 146gb. However, when I was looking at the…
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I flashed my DS4700 with a 7 series firmware, now my DS4300 cannot read the disks I moved to that location. Can I low-level format these disk to restore the DAC?

In preparation for adding a number of 1Tb SATA disks to our DS4700 I flashed the controller firmware from a 6 series (which only supports up to 2Tb logical drives) to a 7 series (which supports larger than 2Tb logical drives). Attached to this…
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Is it safe to flash LSI MegaRAID firmware from within MSM on a 'live' system?

When does the firmware actually get reflashed? Next time the server is restarted? I don't want to interrupt services but I'd love to get the latest update out of the way. (It fixes read/writes for small blocks).. good for MSSQL. This is a LSI…
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NIC firmware version on my DL380 G5

I am trying to figure out what is my current NIC firmware version. If I run the latest firmware upgrade from HP, I get the following: It doesn't tell me the current version. If I try to check it from Device Manager, I get this: That's the driver…
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Centralised configuration management for basic linksys routers?

Does anyone know if its possible to install a custom router firmware, such as dd-wrt and then use a central config management tool to push/pull changes? The setup here involves each office having their own router, and as the 'ISP' we need to…
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Intel® iSCSI Remote Boot Intel X540-T2

I have an Intel X540-T2 Dual port 10GB Ethernet adapter. DEV ID: 8086/1528 I am trying to setup a workstation to boot from a SAN using iSCSI. Everything I have read about this card says that Intel® iSCSI Remote Boot is supported. Yet, I cannot…
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Safe to do firmware updates for multiple items at same time using SUU on Dell server?

I've run SUU on an older production server that I recently became responsible for (PowerEdge R730) and it has many different firmware updates listed. Is it save to just click the upgrade button or should they be done individually? The youtube videos…
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Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installer (Debian)?

0 I have a laptop that I installed Debian(buster) onto that has no GUI also known as (CLI). But for some reason, I can't install firmware-b43-installer it comes up with this error E: Unable to locate package firmware-b43-installer I have a BCM4312…
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ASMB8-IKVM firmware update

I'm trying update firmware that there is 1.08 to more recent, I look in site official but not gotch result, all versions are defined with "unsuccessful" in verifying the firmware image anyone can help me? I…
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How do you determine which HP switch firmware is most appropriate?

We have a few HP 3810M switches, and I know the firmware is not up-to-date. However, when looking at the firmware list there are several different "current" versions. For instance, all firmwares listed here begin with KB.16. but then the second…
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HPE ProLiant Firmware Update (SPP vs. iLO ROM Flash)?

What is the exact difference between a Firmware-Update of a HPE ProLiant Server via the SPP Service Pack which is around 7GB big and the iLO ROM Flash which is around 30MB. So there must be a big difference. I did not found any information what the…
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