Finding a Sound Driver for Windows-It is real pain in the neck.

I did a little search on windows drivers for posterity.
It is done automatically by most of the well known Linux distribution in which ALSA does a good job of doing the background check and then install it at live as well as install time.
So I did not bother about drivers for some time.
The other ally was Knoppix which does automatic scan and writes it at live session and I often use it to detect unknown drivers for unknown hardware (secondhand stuff and the owner often has no clue ).
In this scenario I went up with SuSe and YAST and from it got the details.
Then typed all the details at Google and I could not get anywhere close to the source of a free download.
After several tries and I only get to the users comments and asking for help (tired and fed of trying to get at the web forums and find a solution).
No helpful hints.
Failing which I typed autoscan on Google for drivers and I get handful of exe files which I cannot use.
Then I found a site which specializes in drives called Drivers Guide.
It was the only site which gave some helpful instruction but you have to register with them.
With several tries with lot of other advertisement all over the page I managed to hone down to the probable driver and click download (lot of distraction by Microsoft guys).
It was only 14 MiB and the link broke down and went back to the site then get the latest download from the site but the one I wanted not in the list.
So I went back to my history tree (history tree is helpful when a link is broken) in the web browser and clicked where the link broke and re-did all the steps to download.
Now it says it takes 32 minutes to download and all these took one hour and more and thank god it is May Day Holiday and I had time to spare.
This just to illustrate what a pain a windows guy / girl goes through to get his sound working.
I am not going to use the driver now but put it in my archive in case one day a guy who is using a similar IBM computer and was stuck with driver installation.
In any case I have decided to charge him or her for asking my help and for the driver or chase him away telling either you get me to install Linux or go and do it yourself without any instructions from me.
Or tell him visit my blogspot for help with no charges of course.