Flashing The Bios; Edge Gateway Can Module Functions - Dell Edge Gateway 3001 Installation And Operation Manual

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Flashing new Ubuntu OS image
1.
Insert an USB flash drive into Ubuntu Workstation.
2.
Download caracalla-alpha-20161020-3.img.xz to ~/Downloads/ directory.
3.
Flash the installation image to USB disk.
a. Start Terminal application. It can be found by typing Terminal in the Unity Dash.
b. Type the following command and press Enter.
xzcat /cdrom/ caracalla-20161020-3.img.xz | sudo dd
of=/dev/sdb bs=32M ; sync
NOTE: The sdb may need to be replaced with the actual name of the drive on the system.
WARNING: dd command will erase the content of the drive it writes to.
c. Mark USB disk label as INSTALLER by following command and press Enter.
sudo fatlabel /dev/sdb1 INSTALLER ; sudo parted -ms
/dev/sdb name 1 INSTALLER
d. Verify USB disk label by following two commands and press Enter.
ls /dev/disk/by-label/INSTALLER
ls /dev/disk/by-partlabel/INSTALLER
NOTE: If it shows any "No such file or directory". Please redo step c to d.
4.
Unmount and remove USB flash drive.
5.
Connect power, keyboard, monitor, and Ethernet cable, to Edge Gateway.
6.
Insert USB flash drive into the Edge Gateway.
7.
Turn on and boot-up the Edge Gateway from the USB flash drive.
The installation USB disk will flush Snappy Ubuntu Core Series 16 installation image into storage automatically.
After the installation is complete, it will shutdown the system.
8.
Remove the USB flash drive.
9.
Restart the system.
Snappy Ubuntu Core Series 16 is installed on your Edge Gateway.

Flashing the BIOS

Prerequisites
· BIOS file. Download the file from www.dell.com/support.
· USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 flash drive (4 GB min).
· Turn off the Edge Gateway has been turned off.
1.
On a separate computer, unzip the BIOS update file that you downloaded from www.dell.com/support.
2.
Open the extracted file folder Edge_Gateway3000_1.X.X.
3.
Copy the BIOS update file, it is labeled Edge_Gateway3000_1.X.X.exe, to a USB flash drive.
4.
Insert the USB flash drive in one of the available USB ports on the Edge Gateway.
5.
Turn on the Edge Gateway.
6.
Press F12 when the Dell logo is displayed on the screen to enter the One-time boot screen.
7.
On the One-time boot screen, choose Flash the BIOS .
8.
On the next screen, select the BIOS file (Edge_Gateway3000_1.X.X.exe) on the USB key.
9.
Start the Flash process.

Edge Gateway CAN Module Functions

Description: The Edge Gateway supports an optional CAN module that is mounted inside the Gateway itself. The CAN
module is enumerated to the OS as a USB device as USB HID device to the Linux kernel driver layer on the Wind River
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