[userbinator]

On Windows, the usual solution if you can't get source or someone else won't fix it (sometimes even if you can, because figuring out how to set up a build environment to recompile everything is a hassle when you could just change a byte or two... especially if you're not necessarily going to "develop" any further) is to patch the binary. Maybe this is why I find RE tools on Windows have been far better than with Linux or other Unix-like environments.

Or even more frustratingly, you have the driver source and the fix is very simple but you can't actually use or redistribute it because you're not up for the five grand and six months it takes to get a certificate for code signing.

There are easy solutions to getting unsigned drivers working. I do notice that the Windows and Linux community attitudes toward this are different though --- the latter seems to be "no source, can't do anything" while the former is more like "no source, we'll still fix it". We're not all as helpless and controlled by Microsoft as you may think. ;-)

(I'm someone who recently patched a driver for hardware that I had absolutely no familiarity with before. It was literally a 2-byte change after about 3 hours, most of which was spent learning about the device.)