Drivers

• a device driver is software that tells the computer how to drive or work with the device so that the device performs the job it's supposed to.
• Drivers are called Network Drivers,
  MAC drivers,
  NIC drivers.
  
• Provide communication between a network adapter card and the redirector in the computer.
• Resides in the Media Access Control sublayer of the Data Link layer. Therefore, the NIC driver ensures direct communication between the computer and the NIC
• the Media Access Control driver is another name for the network card device driver
• When installing a driver, you need to know these things
• IRQ
• I/O Port Address
• Memory Mapped (Base Memory Address)
• Transceiver Type