Currently there are several "standards" for supplying packet driver software that knows how to talk to various Ethernet interfaces (also called "adapters") and which can interact correctly with various PC operating systems and applications.
If the vendor of your Ethernet interface or your operating system software makes available a set of packet drivers then you can use them. Another approach that has the advantage of being vendor-neutral is to use the Crynwr collection of packet drivers made available by Russ Nelson.
A collection of packet drivers freely available for a wide range of PC Ethernet interfaces.
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