>> I have decided to venture into new teritory. I downloaded a driver 
>> (hopefully) for my webcam. The tar -xed file contains a bunch of c and 
>> header programs. I need to know what to do. These are the programs 
>> that I am talking about:
>>
>> knoppix@bmike1:~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11/2.4.21$ ls
>> ls
>> pwc-ctrl.c  pwc-ioctl.h  pwc-uncompress.c  pwc.h        pwc_nala.h
>> pwc-if.c    pwc-misc.c   pwc-uncompress.h  pwc_kiara.h  pwc_timon.h
>>
>> One that I find particularly interesting is the pwc-uncompress.c 
>> because (though I am inexperienced) I think that it will uncompress 
>> all the other programs contained with it; however, I am unsure. Could 
>> someone teach me what  I need to know and how to run gcc?
> 
> 
> Look for a README or INSTALL file in the root directory of the untarred 
> files (e.g. ~/Downloads/nthr cam/pwc-8.11).  It should explain how you 
> go about installing this driver.

PS:

Read the following: http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam/install.html