I have a Fedora 41 workstation running on a Framework 16 laptop, and in my device firmware updates on Fedora, a Unifying USB Receiver Update will show up any time I have a USB dongle for a Logitech wireless mouse plugged into one of my USB-A ports. However, the update has an alert message that the update cannot proceed unless the device is not in use. However, when I remove the USB dongle to try and update the device firmware, the update disappears.
This issue is consistently reproducable. I have made no recent changes to my system; Iām using the same mouse, and same system Iāve used for some time now. Iāve attempted to look into Framework laptop specific firmware updates, as far as I can find, my system firmware is fully up to date with the firmware releases for Framework. Here is an image of the update in question:
By ānot in useā they probably mean there can be no devices connected to it over the Bluetooth radio frequencies. Does your PC have an āairplane modeā that you can use to switch off all your Bluetooth connections?
Of course, airplane mode will also switch off WiFi, so unless you have a wired network connection or the update is already cached somehow, that could be tricky.
The fwupdmgr CLI tool might let you fetch and apply the firmware update as separate operations.
I do have airplane mode! I can try that. The biggest issue Iām running into is that as soon as I unplug all my USB connected devices, the update menu refreshes and the update just straight up disappears completely. I cannot get the update to show unless devices are plugged into a USB port, which also makes it so that I cannot perform the update.
The fwupdmgr command line tool was successful! Interestingly, the update did also disappear from the update list when the USB was disconnected. I ran the fwupdmgr update command multiple times, and eventually it just decided to work, even with the USB devices plugged in. Weird.
