How do i make drivers for network card for linux? please help

[touser]

hi all i am trying to install smoothwall on an old laptop of mine, it is a program which turns a pc into a firewall, it uses a striped down version of linux which is open source as its operating system, well i am in set-up and it couldnt find any drivers for my netgear FA 410TXC pcmcia network card, but it does give me the option to enter the driver module name and parameters for drivers such as ISA cards. i was wondering what i should type in to get this card working as i cannot find any drivers for it?

[Vryce]

try asking on some message boards or mailing groups for a similar driver that will work with that card..
once you get the driver, or know which module to use, try:

insmod module.o
(or whatever the mod happens to be called)
You may also have to compile the module, if its a tgz or rpm
use the make command as you would to install anything else from source, then use insmod

an alternative to insmod, is modprobe its generally considdered safer, but may not always work

writing your own drivers would probably be a lot more work than you want to do

[touser]

thanks you Vryce, i think i am going to just go ahead and rummage through the local swapmeet for an old 100mhz system or something of that nature and buy it cheap..and use it, i cannot find any drivers for my pcmcia cards but there are plenty for the isa ones so off the the swapmeet for me! ehhe