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On this page we will deal with the driver for the network card of a desktop computer or laptop. In the title I also wrote an Ethernet controller - this is a network adapter. It’s just that in the device manager, as a rule, the network card is displayed as an unknown device called “Ethernet controller”. This is when the driver is not installed on it. I will try to explain in detail how to determine the status of a network card (does it work, no, do I need to install a driver), then I’ll show you how to determine which driver is needed for the Ethernet controller specifically in your case, and where to download it.

I don’t often write articles specifically on solving problems with LAN adapters, for the reason that there are practically no problems with these adapters. They often burn, that's all. But as for drivers, Windows 10, Windows 8, and Windows 7 almost always automatically install drivers on the network card. The same cannot be said about the wireless Wi-Fi adapter. But today is not about him.

The Ethernet controller itself is almost always integrated into a laptop or desktop computer’s motherboard. Perhaps your system unit already has a discrete network card that is connected to a PCI slot. And there may also be a USB adapter, something like this, but this is rare. For greater clarity, let's look at the picture:

It doesn't matter which Ethernet controller you have installed. In any case, for it to work, a driver must be installed on it. You can check this in Device Manager.

Checking the network card in Device Manager

Let's go to the device manager and see what's what. If you don’t know how to enter the device manager, then press the keyboard shortcut Win+R, copy the command into the window devmgmt.msc, and click Ok. Or right-click on “My Computer” - “Properties”, and there “Device Manager”.

Open the tab immediately "Network adapters". If everything is fine with the network card, then there should be an adapter in the name of which you will see the words “LAN”, “Ethernet adapter”, “PCI...”, “Family Controller”, etc. I have an ASUS laptop, and adapter "Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller".

If you don’t see a network card there, then there must be an unknown device (with yellow exclamation mark). Most likely, it will be called "Ethernet controller". This is our network card, which does not work due to the lack of a driver. Windows without a driver simply does not know what kind of device it is and how to “communicate” with it.

We just need to install the driver on the network card. Or reinstall it if there is an adapter, but it works with errors or does not work at all.

Which driver should I download for the network card (Ethernet controller)?

We found out that we need to download and install the driver for the Ethernet controller. You probably immediately have a question about what driver is needed and where you can download it. Let's figure it out now.

The most correct way is to look for a driver for your laptop model, motherboard, or network card itself.

I understand that your Internet most likely does not work. If you had a driver disk with the adapter itself, laptop, or motherboard (if you have a PC), then you can try installing the driver from the disk.

If there is no disk, you will have to look for and download the driver from another computer, or even a mobile device. Then transfer it to the desired computer and install it.

If you have a laptop with a built-in network adapter

Everything is very simple here. First we need to find out the laptop model. It is exactly indicated on the sticker on the bottom of the laptop. Next, we type the laptop model into Google and go to the official website. Or, go to the official website of the manufacturer of your laptop, and through a search on the site we find the page for the model of your laptop. There we already look for the “Drivers”, “Support”, etc. tab, and download LAN Driver. Required for your Windows installation.

Depending on the manufacturer of your laptop, the process itself will differ. Therefore, I cannot give specific instructions. But the procedure will be the same. Since on the website of each manufacturer there is a page for a specific laptop model where you can download all the drivers.

I described this process in more detail in the article. In this case, everything is exactly the same, only in the end we download the driver not for Wi-Fi, but for the network card. Although, you will most likely have to download and install the driver for the Wi-Fi adapter.

Searching for a LAN driver for a desktop computer

If you have a desktop computer with a network card built into the motherboard, then you need to look for the driver on the motherboard manufacturer’s website for your motherboard model. You probably have a question about how to find out the model of your motherboard. There are many programs, such as AIDA64, or CPU-Z. But this can also be done via the command line.

Open a command line and run the following commands one by one:

wmic baseboard get Manufacturer

wmic baseboard get product

Only the last one is possible. After completing it, you will see the motherboard model.

Next, we search the Internet for the motherboard model, go to the developer’s website, in my case it’s MSI, and download the LAN driver. Just remember to select your operating system. There will definitely be such an opportunity.

If you have a PCI or USB network card

In this case, first check if there was a driver disk included with the card itself.

If not, then you need to find out the model of the network adapter and download the driver from the official website. The model can usually be viewed on the device itself.

Searching for an Ethernet controller driver by VEN and DEV

This is a backup case. There is one good site that has helped me out more than once. With its help you can find a driver for almost any unknown device.

First, go to the device manager, right-click on our Ethernet controller (or an unknown device that you think might be a network adapter), and select "Properties".

In the new window, go to the "Details" tab. Select "Hardware ID" from the drop-down menu. Copy the last line (if it doesn’t work, you can try others).

Go to the website http://devid.info. In the search bar, paste the copied line from the device manager. And click "Search".

Download the first driver from the list. Please note that next to the driver the system for which it is suitable will be indicated. You need a driver for your Windows operating system. There you can select the desired system and system capacity from above. For example, Windows 10.

And on another page:

Download the driver file to your computer. Now we will install it.

Installing a driver on a network card in Windows 10, 8, 7

So, we already have the driver. As practice shows, to install you just need to open the downloaded archive, run the setup.exe file, and follow the installation instructions.

If any error appears during the driver installation process, restart your computer and try the installation again. If the driver still does not want to be installed, then try downloading another one. But there shouldn't be any problems.

We update the driver manually (if there is no setup.exe file)

You can try another installation method. First, extract all files from the driver archive. You can go to your desktop.

Next, go to the device manager and right-click on the network card. More precisely, to an unknown device (or Ethernet controller), which you think is the network adapter, and select "Update drivers".

In the new window, select “Search for drivers on this computer.”

The system itself must find and install the driver. If you specified the folder with the correct drivers.

If something didn’t work out for you during the installation process, write in the comments. Describe the problem in detail and I will try to help you.

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When there are problems with the network (more precisely, its inaccessibility), very often the cause is one detail: there are no drivers for the network card (which means it simply does not work!).

If you open the task manager (which is recommended in almost every manual)- then you can see, most often, not a network card, opposite which the yellow icon will be lit, but some kind of Ethernet controller (or network controller, or Network controller, etc.). As follows from the above, an Ethernet controller refers to a network card (I won’t dwell on this further in the article).

In this article I will tell you what to do with this error, how to determine the model of your network card and find drivers for it. So, let's start analyzing the “flights”...

Note!

Perhaps you do not have access to the network for a completely different reason (not due to the lack of drivers on the Ethernet controller). Therefore, I recommend checking this point again in the device manager. For those who don't know how to open it, I'll give a couple of examples below.

How to enter Device Manager

Method 1

Method 2

In Windows 7: in the START menu you need to find the line to execute and enter the command devmgmt.msc.

In Windows 8, 10: press the combination of the Win and R buttons, enter devmgmt.msc in the line that opens, press Enter (screen below).

Examples of errors that cause

When you go to Device Manager, look at the " Other devices". This is where all devices for which drivers are not installed will be displayed. (or if there are drivers, but there are problems with them).

Several examples of displaying a similar problem in different versions of Windows are presented below.

This occurs most often in the following cases:

After reinstalling Windows. This is the most common reason. The fact is that by formatting the disk and installing a new Windows, the drivers that were in the “old” system will be deleted, but they are not yet in the new one (you need to install them again). This is where the fun begins: the disk from the PC (network card), it turns out, was lost a long time ago, and it’s impossible to download the driver on the Internet, since there is no network due to the lack of a driver (I apologize for the tautology, but this is such a vicious circle). It should be noted that during installation, new versions of Windows (7, 8, 10) find and install universal drivers for most equipment (rarely is something left without a driver).
Installing new drivers. For example, old drivers were removed and new ones were installed incorrectly - please receive a similar error.
Installing network applications. Various applications for working with the network (for example, if they were incorrectly uninstalled, installed, etc.) can create similar problems.
Virus attack. Viruses, in general, can do anything :). No comments here. I recommend this article:

If everything is ok with the drivers...

Pay attention to this moment. Each network adapter in your PC (laptop) has its own driver installed. For example, on a typical laptop, there are usually two adapters: Wi-Fi and Ethernet (see screenshot below):

Dell Wireless 1705... - this is the Wi-Fi adapter;
Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller is just a network controller (Ethernet-Controller as it is called).

HOW TO RESTORE THE NETWORK / FIND A DRIVER FOR THE NETWORK CARD

Important point. If the Internet does not work on your computer (due to the fact that there is no driver), then you cannot do it without the help of a neighbor or friend. Although, in some cases, you can get by with your phone, for example, by downloading the necessary driver for it and then transferring it to your PC. Or, as another option, just share the Internet from it if, for example, you have a Wi-Fi driver:

Option #1: manual...

This option has the following advantages:

no need to install any additional utilities;
download only the driver you need (i.e. there is no point in downloading gigabytes of unnecessary information);
you can find a driver even for the rarest equipment, when special. programs don't help.

True, there are also disadvantages: you have to spend some time searching...

To download and install the driver for any Ethernet controller, you first need determine exactly its model (well, Windows OS - I think there will be no problems with this. If anything, open “my computer” and right-click anywhere, then go to properties - all the information about the OS will be there).

One of the most reliable ways to determine a specific equipment model is to use special identifiers VID and PID. Every equipment has them:

VID is the manufacturer's identifier;
PID is the product identifier, i.e. indicates a specific device model (usually).

That is, to download a driver for a device, for example, a network card, you need to find out the VID and PID of this device.

To find out VID and PID - you need to open it first device Manager. Next, find the equipment with a yellow exclamation mark (or the one for which you are looking for a driver). Then open its properties (screen below).

Next, you need to open the “details” tab and select “Equipment ID” in the properties. Below you will see a list of values - this is what we were looking for. This line needs to be copied by right-clicking on it and selecting the appropriate one from the menu (see screenshot below). Actually, using this line you can search for a driver!

Then you paste this line into a search engine (for example, Google) and find the required drivers on numerous sites.

As an example, I’ll give a couple of addresses (you can also directly search for them):

Option 2: using special. programs

Most programs for automatically updating drivers have one urgent need: the PC where they work must have access to the Internet (and preferably fast one). Naturally, in this case, it makes no sense to recommend such programs for installation on a computer...

But there are some programs that can work autonomously (that is, they already contain all the most common universal drivers that can be installed on a PC).

3DPNET. A very small program (you can even download it via the Internet on your phone), which is designed specifically for updating and installing drivers for network controllers. Can work without access to the Internet. In general, it couldn’t come at a better time in our case;
Driver Pack Solutions. This program is distributed in 2 versions: the first is a small utility that requires access to the Internet (I don’t consider it), the second is an ISO image with a huge set of drivers (there is everything for everything - you can update drivers for all equipment installed on your computer). The only problem: this ISO image is about 10 GB. Therefore, you need to download it in advance, for example, onto a flash drive, and then run it on a PC where there is no driver.

You can find these programs and others in this article :

3DP NET - saving the network card and the Internet :)…

That, in fact, is the whole solution to the problem in this case. As you can see from the article, in many cases you can even do it on your own. In general, I recommend downloading and saving somewhere on a flash drive drivers for all the equipment you have (as long as everything works). And in the event of any failure, you can quickly and easily restore everything without hassle (even if you reinstall Windows).

That's all for me. If there are any additions, thank you in advance. Good luck!