Comment 36 for bug 1729674

(In reply to Benjamin Berg from comment #11)
> Martin, could you maybe try disabling RC checksum offloading and see if that
> helps? Then the corrupted packages should be discarded by the kernel (even
> if they are only corrupted during the transfer over USB). i.e. try again
> after running:
>
> ethtool --offload $DEVICE rx off

With this, it seems to work alright, thanks! Kernel 4.13.0-0.rc5.git1.1.fc27.x86_64 BTW.

(In reply to Mario Limonciello from comment #16)
> For now, can you two downgrade to 1.3.5? Fwupd probably won't let you, but
> you can place the .EXE file on a FAT32 partition and do it from F12 menu at
> POST I expect.

I'm able to function this way so I'll probably not go for that - unless it'll be necessary to verify it actually happened between the mentioned versions.
I'd rather track if there's a new release and then upgrade when it's out and see if it fixes the USB problem.