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

[Billie Walsh]

On 01/30/2008 Bas Roufs wrote:
> 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.

I've got some of the same type stuff running on my computers. Maybe I'm
wrong, but I don't worry about it. If I have to have it working, I have
to have it working. Do I want my computer to work? That's the bottom line.

Sure, open source drivers would be nice. But in the real world it ain't
happenin'.