Finding a Driver
There was a really useful post on the 64bit newsgroup today from Carlos about how to find a driver for a generic device. I'm going to paraphrase it here, but the basic process is to get the hardware ID from the device and use that to find the real manufacturer (using PCI Database), then use Google (or your preferred search engine) to find equivalent adapters that could have drivers. A neat trick, and my thanks to Carlos for posting it.
From Carlos' post:
"Regarding your "old" Motorola USB wireless network adapter there is always a
chance that the same chipset may be used or produced by another manufacturer.
Go to Device Manager, right click on your USB adapter, go to the detail
tabs, choose Hardware ID and take note of the VID and PID entries.
The first one identifies the real manufacturer and the second one the device
itself.
Go here: http://www.pcidatabase.com/
And input your VID in the dialog box in order to find out the real
manufacturer.
Try googling from there on with that info, VID PID and manufacturer, in
order to find equivalent USB adapters that might have Vista x64 drivers.
That worked for me with an unknown brand webcam for which I found drivers in Genius.
Carlos"
Thanks, Carlos.
Charlie.