Realtek Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8161; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Realtek Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Realtek Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller driver. The archive contains version 7.130.0212.2020 dated 2020-02-12 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Driver file size: 782353 bytes (764.02 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.9 stars by 41841 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Realtek Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Realtek R PCI e Ethernet Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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