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Lesson 3 - System Software Device Drivers A device driver is special-purpose software used to control specific hardware devices in a computer system. These specific pieces of hardware can be disk drives, floppy drives, or NICs. Device drivers for NICs control the operation of the NIC and provide an interface for the computer's operating system. The operating system and associated applications on the computer can use the device driver to communicate with the NIC and send and receive information on a network.
Activities See the Activities and Extended Activities section in Unit 1 Lesson 3 in your textbook Introduction to Networking to test what you have learned so far. [ Previous Section] [ Unit Contents] [ Next Section ]
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