Users Guide
Table Of Contents
- Dell Edge Gateway 3001 Installation and Operation Manual
- Overview
- System views
- Installing your Edge Gateway
- Safety and regulatory information
- Setting up your Edge Gateway
- Activating your mobile broadband service
- Mounting your Edge Gateway
- Mounting the Edge Gateway using the standard-mount bracket
- Mounting the Edge Gateway using quick-mount bracket
- Attaching the cable control bars to the standard-mount bracket
- Mounting the Edge Gateway on a DIN rail using the DIN-rail bracket
- Mounting the Edge Gateway using the perpendicular mount
- Mounting the Edge Gateway using a VESA mount
- Setting up the ZigBee dongle
- Setting up the operating system
- Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSB 2016
- Ubuntu Core 16
- Overview
- Boot up and log in – Remote system configuration
- Updating operating system and applications
- Additional Ubuntu commands
- Ubuntu Network Manager
- Serial ports
- Minicom
- GPIO
- Security
- Watchdog Timer (WDT)
- Cloud LED On/Off
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Snappy auto update/Autopilot
- Accessing Snappy Store/Snapweb
- Sensors
- Ignition Pin
- System Power Management
- Restoring Ubuntu Core 16
- Flashing a new OS image
- Ubuntu Server
- Overview
- Login to the Edge Gateway using Ethernet Port 1
- Installing or configuring Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) daemon
- Ubuntu Server driver information
- Firmware management on Ubuntu Server
- Configure Watchdog Timer (WDT)
- Trusted Platform Module (TPM)
- Cloud LED On/Off
- Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA)
- Global Positioning Systems (GPS)
- Serial ports
- GPIO
- Sensors
- Ignition Pin
- System Power Management
- Ubuntu Network Manager
- Restoring Ubuntu Server
- Creating the OS recovery USB flash drive
- Accessing and updating BIOS
- References
- Appendix
- Contacting Dell
● A blank USB 2.0 or 3.0 USB flash drive with at least 4 GB of storage space.
Follow these steps to update the BIOS:
1. Power off the Edge Gateway.
2. Copy the BIOS update file to a USB flash drive.
3. Insert the USB flash drive in one of the available USB ports on the Edge Gateway.
4. Power on the Edge Gateway.
5. Press F12 when the system is starting up to enter the one-time boot screen.
6. On the one-time boot screen, choose Flash the BIOS.
7. In the next screen, select the BIOS file on the USB flash drive.
8. Start the flash process.
Updating the BIOS on a Windows system
Follow these steps to update the BIOS:
1. After connecting to the Edge Gateway.
NOTE: Connect and login to the Edge Gateway with one these options:
● Remote system configuration
2. Go to www.dell.com/support.
3. Click Product support, enter the Service Tag of your system, and then click Submit.
NOTE: If you do not have the Service Tag, use the auto-detect feature or manually browse to your system model.
4. Click Drivers & downloads.
5. Select the operating system installed on your system.
6. Scroll down the page and expand BIOS.
7. Click Download to download the latest version of the BIOS for your system.
8. After the download is complete, navigate to the folder where you saved the BIOS file.
9. Double-click the BIOS update file icon and follow the instructions on the screen.
Using UEFI capsule update on an Ubuntu system
The fwupgmgr tool or commands are used to update the UEFI BIOS on the system. The UEFI BIOS for this platform is released
through online Linux Vendor File System (LVFS) based methods
Dell recommends that you enable the UEFI Capsule update by default so that it is running in the background to keep the system
BIOS up to date.
NOTE: For more information about fwupd commands, see www.fwupd.org/users.
Without an internet connection
1. Download the latest .cab file from secure-lvfs.rhcloud.com/lvfs/devicelist.
2. Check the current BIOS details.
$ sudo uefi-fw-tools.fwupdmgr get-devices
3. Copy the firmware.cab file to /root/snap/uefi-fw-tools/common/ folder.
$ sudo cp firmware.cab /root/snap/uefi-fw-tools/common/
4. Check the details of the BIOS from the .cab file.
$ sudo uefi-fw-tools.fwupdmgr get-details [Full path of firmware.cab]
Accessing and updating BIOS
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