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sschu
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Dec 11, 2020

Driver for Windows 10 Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter GA311

Hello,
I have an old Netgear Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter (RTL8169/8110 Chipset) but Windows 10 doesn't recognize it.

The newest driver on the netgear-support-page for that product is for Windows Vista/XP. Does anyone know, how to get this  working? Even selecting a RTL8169-Chipset-Driver offered by Windows 10 (but probably incompatible) doesn't work ("Couldn't start device Code 10").

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  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru - Experienced User
    Dec 12, 2020
    sschu wrote:

    Hello,
    I have an old Netgear Gigabit-Ethernet-Adapter

    Old is about right. 2003. My newest home rolled PCs don't even support PCI cards, only PCI-e.

     

    Netgear won't have produced drivers for something that ancient. It has even abandoned making Ethernet cards for PCs, probably because it is hard to find a PC that doesn't have native support for Ethernet.

     

    Newer versions of Windows sometimes have generic drivers that work for older hardware. But you may be reduced to looking for something a bit newer. Amazon seems to stock them for next to nothing. Not much choice though.