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Sybil
Asked: 2024-04-17 15:40:26 +0800 CST

Firmware upgrades "fwupd" not working on Raspberry and MacBook Air 2014 - WARNING: UEFI capsule updates not available or enabled in firmware setup

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I love to the idea of fwupd. But it's not working on both Ubuntu machines (Rasperry PI 5 and MacBook Air 2014).

I always get this error (all commands return the same error, fwupdmgr get-devices and fwupdmgr update and fwupdmgr refresh)

WARNING: UEFI capsule updates not available or enabled in firmware setup  
See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:capsules-unsupported for more information.  
Metadata is up to date; use --force to refresh again.  
WARNING: UEFI capsule updates not available or enabled in firmware setup  
See https://github.com/fwupd/fwupd/wiki/PluginFlag:capsules-unsupported for more information.  
No updatable devices

How-To enable fwupd on those devices? The GitHub wiki link in error message did not help. Is my hardware not compatible?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Neither the Raspberry Pi foundation nor Apple are uploading firmware to the LVFS. Neither are also using the standards-compliant UpdateCapsule mechanism for update, so the warning is essentially correct. If you plug in a USB device that is supported by fwupd then you'll be able to update that. See the list of supported hardware here: https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devices/

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