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The term "LAN Driver" is meaningless without associating it with an Operating System and a specific item of Hardware. There is no such thing as a "LAN Driver". There are only XP LAN Drivers, Vista LAN Drivers or Windows 7 LAN Drivers, Mac OSX Tiger LAN Drivers. Mac OSX Leopard LAN Drivers, Mac OSX Lion LAN Drivers, Linux Red Hat LAN Drivers, Linux Ubuntu LAN Drivers, etc Although drivers seem to mainly be about hardware, they are actually mainly about software. The Driver does not physically control the Motherboard's Devices. The BIOS and the Operating System do. What the Driver does is (just like a human interpreter for a guest who speaks a different language from his host), introduce the Device to the Operating System and help them to communicate with one another, with the Driver taking instructions from both and passing it back and forth between them. So when one mentions Drivers, one must also mention the Operating System it will be talking to. In order for that to be possible, the 2 must share a common language. If they do not, then the role of 'interpreter' is impossible, because, then neither the Driver nor the Device will be able to understand what the Operating System is saying. Identify the Hardware and the Operating system and then you can find the drivers if drivers exist for the particular hardware and the Operating System in question. I hope this helps.
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