Driver for Realtek Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Realtek. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8136&SUBSYS_12F51043&REV_01.

1. Install Realtek Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC driver. The archive contains version 6.222.0504.2009 dated 2009-05-04 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please confirm the installation 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 pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 190117 bytes (185.66 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4 stars out of 34928 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Realtek Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC driver

The most important 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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push 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. Search the list until you locate the Realtek Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E FE NIC driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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