You can update from any computer, as long as it has an USB-C port. I think administrator privilege is needed, though.
A Framework team member has explained on Reddit why there is no Linux way to update the firmware:
The tool provided by our Expansion Card manufacturing partner is unfortunately only built for Windows and we had to obtain permission to release it publicly for firmware flashing purposes. We know this is not ideal for our Linux Community, but there was no other available option given it is their software.
@raphha Thanks for detailed explanation. That's exactly what I was doing, and I could not see what was wrong with what I did. I could not find my DisplayPort expansion card in the "USB Host Device" category, so I thought it was under a generic name in a random category, or I had to add something else first for it to show up.
As it turns out, it's just that my expansion card is physically dead. The last time I used it, it worked without issues, but I hadn't used it in a while, and it decided to killed itself randomly for no apparent reason. Looking at the forums, it seems this is a very common occurrence with this card.
Hopefully the new batch is of better quality, but I probably won't gamble my money on testing it.
@raphha would you mind explaining how you did it exactly?
I've been trying for an hour to pass the DisplayPort module to the Windows guest in virt-manager for an hour, but no matter what I did, the Framework executables would refuse to recognise it. My USB-A modules are getting passed correctly, it's just the DisplayPort that's problematic.
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You can update from any computer, as long as it has an USB-C port. I think administrator privilege is needed, though.
A Framework team member has explained on Reddit why there is no Linux way to update the firmware:
@raphha Thanks for detailed explanation. That's exactly what I was doing, and I could not see what was wrong with what I did. I could not find my DisplayPort expansion card in the "USB Host Device" category, so I thought it was under a generic name in a random category, or I had to add something else first for it to show up.
As it turns out, it's just that my expansion card is physically dead. The last time I used it, it worked without issues, but I hadn't used it in a while, and it decided to killed itself randomly for no apparent reason. Looking at the forums, it seems this is a very common occurrence with this card.
Hopefully the new batch is of better quality, but I probably won't gamble my money on testing it.
@raphha would you mind explaining how you did it exactly?
I've been trying for an hour to pass the DisplayPort module to the Windows guest in virt-manager for an hour, but no matter what I did, the Framework executables would refuse to recognise it. My USB-A modules are getting passed correctly, it's just the DisplayPort that's problematic.