Realtek ethernet controller driver for windows vista download

I can probably get this working on my own in the short term by tinkering around in Device Manager or worst case, swapping in yet another NIC into another PCIe slot.

But I'm more interested in the long-term And since it has happened multiple times, I fully expect Windows will screw the pooch with the drivers in the future. Are there any generic Ethernet drivers out there for Windows 7 x64? Iwould love it if someone had ported the Linux drivers back to Windows,but if its generic please still mention it.

I prefer open-sourced so that I can bereasonably sure that I'm not getting a virus, but I'd still be interested in hearing about non-free options provided that a it is actually relevant for my scenario and b it is not blatant spam-vertising. Only other option was 'About'. That didn't work either. I think Windows had been reporting device didn't start or whatever error code 10 was.

In Linux Mint, I was able to pull up sites just fine while my cable was plugged into this port. Anyway, now that my internet works in both Windows and Linux, I've pretty much lost interest in this question but I will still post my Linux output below for completeness who knows maybe it'll help somebody else See output below.

For this part, Alex P. Win 7 x64 wasn't listed anywhere, and the only newer version I saw v I've used Linux on lots of boxes and never really had to do diddly for ethernet to work, it 'just did' Anyway, from Alex's answer and what I half-guessed before posting, it sounds like this probably doesn't exist -- or rather that's not the way things work.

If somehow all that proves to be wrong or there's some clever little hack for it, please please add a comment and let us know. But for now I will assume that part to be done as well. I will mention for the benefit of anyone looking for the same thing, that I remember some driver packs from my days of making automated Windows install discs this was back with XP but I'm sure people have 'em for Win7 and later.

Basically, the concept was you got these drivers packs and loaded them onto your customized install disc and then Windows would have a boatload more drivers to use beyond what it already comes with. This isn't quite the same thing as I was asking about, and it wouldn't give you the latest and greatest but it may be a solution for somebody.

Linux Output: ok, so here is the output of hwinfo --network in Linux Mint 14 off the live disc, since i just reformatted my system partition before my original post. Type :. Automatically install drivers with Driver Fusion. Date: 01 October INF files: rtx Date: 11 August INF files: hpx Download driver Windows 11, 10 x INF file: hpx Download driver Windows 11, 10, 8. INF files: hp64win7. Date: 11 May INF files: cf86win7. Date: 13 April INF files: wsx INF files: hp86win7.

Date: 15 March Date: 21 January Date: 31 December Date: 28 September Date: 23 July Date: 26 May