OSDev.org

I am interested to know if there are any networking kernels out there that one could use for there OS so there OS has networking. Or would this have to be built from the ground up? I imagine if you really want it to be all your own you'd need to build it from the ground up but is there any kernels out there that can be used for free for networking in a OS?

I think you're looking for a network stack, not an entire kernel...

There are several open source network stacks, one fairly popular one is lwIP.

I personally suggest you just write the stack yourself; networking is one of the best documented components for a programmer to use in an operating system you can find.

Alright thanks I thought you had to write a kernel to load the networking hardware such as DSL line etc. I am fairly new to OS development an was just courios about how this could be done but thank you I shall make a note of that an go back to working on bootloading this POS OS lol