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 Windows version of this driver was developed by Realtek Semiconductor Corp.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8139&SUBSYS_706C1462; 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 installer 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. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation 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 analyze 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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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 install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click 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 on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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