One of the worst companies to find drivers for is Acer. That is followed closely by Fujitsu and Sony, and then probably IBM. HP and Dell are both very easy to find drivers for.

Take, for example, my current Acer laptop: Extensa 4420. You can “find” the drivers for it, but they won’t all work. XP support is non-existent, but since it came with 32bit vista, you’d think it’d be an easy task to reformat the laptop and install 32bit vista business.

Nope.

If you ever need to find drivers, here’s the source:
ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/

Here’s another hint: if you can’t find your model number, or the drivers don’t seem to work, just change the model slightly. In the example above, the 4420 drivers don’t all work. But the 4430 drivers do.

I also had another Acer laptop that wasn’t even listed on Acer’s website. Odd. I had to go to that acer-euro site (not the americas one) to find anything even close to the model number.

Just figured I’d put this out there for others to use.