make
su
insmod resulting .o (the actual device driver)
check to make sure it works. 
It does, so dump the .o into your /lib/linux/modules/2.4.22/usb/

or something like that.

Read that website that Kevin Bronw mentioned, it goes into more detail. 

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 21:23, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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?