Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Broadcom. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_14e4&DEV_1658; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver. The archive contains version 10.82.0.0 released on 2008-04-02 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Broadcom applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 132061 bytes (128.97 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 18036 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Broadcom Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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