OK. As no οne answered I thought to give it a try. My thoughts was on how to update the firmware of a device that I'm using if the installation instructions say "Only offline"!!!.
The sort answer is "you do it anyway and the device will disconnect and connect back again during the process, all by it self"!!! Nice.
So as I'm not a GUI guy I did via terminal and it was quite simple. Just 2 commands.
sudo fwupdmgr refresh
sudo fwupdmgr update
If there is an update to any of the connected devices, after the 2nd command there will be a prompt, asking you if you want to proceed with the update. If you do concern and hit Y
, the update will start and in some point the dock will restart it self. Don't panic. This is what it supposed to do. After that the dock will connect to laptop again and.... that's it.
I however did one more thing. I disconnected the laptop and power down the dock by removing the power cable. After 5 sec I powered back up the dock and the fans of the dock went crazy for about a minute. I don't know if that was needed but I did it anyway. After that all was OK and my laptop is "docked" again with no problems.
note:
In case you don't have fwupdmgr
, just run sudo apt install fwupd
.