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#1 2018-03-15 08:42:08

red-lichtie
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Registered: 2015-03-08
Posts: 53

Dell XPS 13 + message "dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded"

Hi,

lately when booting my Dell XPS 13 (9343), I've been seeing the following set of messages:

[    5.910827] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.910937] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.911301] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.911361] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.911420] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.911479] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded
[    5.911771] dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded

And after boot this is what ls mod shows:

lsmod | grep dell
dell_wmi               16384  0
sparse_keymap          16384  1 dell_wmi
dell_smbios_wmi        16384  0
dell_wmi_descriptor    16384  2 dell_wmi,dell_smbios_wmi
dell_smbios_smm        16384  0
dell_laptop            24576  1
dell_smbios            16384  4 dell_wmi,dell_laptop,dell_smbios_wmi,dell_smbios_smm
dcdbas                 16384  1 dell_smbios_smm
led_class              16384  3 iwlmvm,input_leds,dell_laptop
rfkill                 28672  8 bluetooth,dell_laptop,cfg80211
wmi                    28672  4 dell_wmi,wmi_bmof,dell_wmi_descriptor,dell_smbios_wmi
i8042                  32768  1 dell_laptop

Everything appears to be working normally but I'm wondering if there is something going wrong.

Can I just ignore the message?

Is there something I have to fix/install to load the required drivers before dell_smbios gets called?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.


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#2 2018-03-15 19:42:07

NoobAlice
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Registered: 2018-02-25
Posts: 3

Re: Dell XPS 13 + message "dell_smbios: No dell-smbios drivers are loaded"

Is your BIOS updated?  I was getting similar messages on my Dell Latitude E6530 laptop until I updated the BIOS last night.  This jump took me from a 2013 to 2017 updated BIOS.  It looks like your BIOS updates would be easier than mine as well!

You can install dmidecode to check your BIOS version with your computer still running.  More thorough instructions on updating (flashing) your BIOS are at this Archwiki page.

If you go to download it, be sure to enter your service tag at the Dell website to find the right BIOS update.  I've read that different computer setups may have different needs, even within the same basic product (but I can't find that link again).

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