Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8139&SUBSYS_557C1462; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver

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 5.621.0304.2005 released on 2005-03-14 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 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 pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
Download size of the driver: 76468 bytes (74.68 KB)
Driver rating 4.5 stars out of 81262 votes.
This driver is 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. Installing the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 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 PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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