What a sad story!
One, probably stupid, question: Do you need drivers at all?
Isn't the camera recognized (as a removable drive) as is?
AFAIK it depends upon the OS. Win 98 will need drivers. XP might need
them, Win 2000 won't. That's my experience with usb cameras and memory
sticks. XP support for USB seems to be PC specific. Some give no
problems, others (e.g. my Father's, and anything owned by Dilwyn, it
would appear) fail to install properly. You could always dual boot the
machine to Linux. Under Mandrake it will should recognise the cam as a
removable drive, but you might need to manually modify the /etc/fstab file.
If its a USB web-cam you probably need the drivers for any O/S.
Hmm sorry to add to your woes, but I have a totally different story... I took
my digicam & digi camcorder to my recent vacations. I took picures & "films"
of my children skiing, brought them home, plugged both in: the digicam (USB)
was recognized as a removable disk and I just pulled all of the pictures off
it into the laptop and was able to display them there.
The camcorder was plugged in via firewire, I again just pulled everything off
it with some (free) MS software called movie something.
Both worked first time.
I do admit that this was the first time I was impressed by anything windows
related (and the family was suitably impressed).
I'm probably just lucky. I didn't install any kind of driver or anything, not
even the software that came with the devices - but it was XP SP2..
Wolfgang
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