Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8136&SUBSYS_E2171631&REV_02; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 5.684.1205.2007 released on 2007-12-05.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running then you will have to 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 should be pretty straightforward. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Realtek Semiconductor Corp. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 81092 bytes (79.19 KB)
Driver rating 4.9 stars out of 64331 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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. How to use DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC driver

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

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8102E Family PCI-E Fast Ethernet NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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