Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Realtek. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_10EC&DEV_8136&REV_1E; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver manually

1. Download the setup file for Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 8.010.1226.2012 released on 2012-12-26.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (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 quite 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 fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Realtek applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 389068 bytes (379.95 KB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 26308 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. Installing the Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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 locate the Realtek Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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