Driver for Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC - downloading and installing it

Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8139&SUBSYS_306217AA; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver. The archive contains version 5.659.1012.2006 released on 2006-10-12 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 enabled 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 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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This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.3 stars out of 54868 votes.

2. Using DriverMax to install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC 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. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and 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 Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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