Linux drivers ACER Travelmate 2310 laptop - more info available now, but problem not yet solved.

[Bas Roufs]

Hello everybody

Less half an our after sending my previous message (see copy below), I 
found back the exact text of the information I was looking for:
system settings >> tab ADVANCED >> Restricted drivers/ administrative 
mode. This delivers the following info:

"Proprietary drivers are being used to make this computer properly.
Proprietary drivers do not have public source code that Ubuntu 
developers are free to modify. They represent a risk to you, because 
they are only available on the types of computer chosen by the 
manufacturer, and security updates to them depend solely on the 
responsiveness of the manufacturer. Ubuntu cannot fix or improve these 
drivers. "

At present, two of such 'proprietary drivers' are in use:
* Atheros Hardware Access Layer (HAL)
* Software modem driver.

Do you know any possibility to replace these drivers by public source 
equivalents?

Respectfully Yours,

Bas.


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Linux drivers ACER Travelmate 2310 laptop.
Date: 	Wed, 30 Jan 2008 18:21:36 +0100
From: 	Bas Roufs <basroufs at gmail.com>
To: 	Kubuntu Help and User Discussions <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>



Hello again

Today, I finally managed to install Kubuntu 7.10 at my laptop: an ACER 
Travelmate 2310. When booting and accessing the laptop for the first 
time after installation (and after fixing the password problem), I saw a 
message on a few drivers necessary for the operation of Kubuntu on this 
laptop. There were only drivers available from the manufacturer, I read 
-  not open source drivers that can all the time be bettered, security 
fixed, etc. One of these 2 drivers that have been mentioned, was a 
'modem driver'.
However, I do not manage to get back the exact text of that message; 
this complicates my attempts  to properly handle this problem.

When looking at the ACER website and giving in "Travelmate 2310" in the 
search window, I can only find Windows XP drivers for some specific 
functions of that laptop. Do you have any clue how I could get Linux 
equivalents?

I am looking forward to a few answers from you. Thanks in advance.

Bas.


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Van 't Hoffstraat 1
NL-3514 VT  Utrecht
E.:  BasRoufs at gmail.com
M.: +31.6.446.835.10.
T.: +31.30.785.20.40.
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