After installation of this Driver (automatically with Windows 10 update) I had lost immediately the LAN Connection. What worked for me: 1. Complete deinstallation of the Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller in the Device Manager. Restarting the Computer. Installing the older Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller, Version 9.1.406.2015 from 06.04. To get the Media Access Control (MAC) address and list of network protocols associated with each address for all local network cards. Use the /v option to get verbose output (which includes the 'Connection Name'). The 'Connection Name' is needed later so that we can identify which adapter is the Ethernet connection. HOME > Downloads > Communications Network ICs > Network Interface Controllers > 10/100/1000M Gigabit Ethernet > PCI Express.
So I am not actually in any of the boats any of the others are describing. The only 'viras tool' I have is Windows Defender and turning that off briefly did not do anything.
I have tried disabling the adapter - Nothing
After installation of this Driver (automatically with Windows 10 update) I had lost immediately the LAN Connection. What worked for me: 1. Complete deinstallation of the Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller in the Device Manager. Restarting the Computer. Installing the older Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller, Version 9.1.406.2015 from. Realtek PCIe Gigabit Ethernet 10/100/1000M Network Driver 10.028. Realtek PCIe FE GBE Family Controller Series Driver 7.110 for Windows 7. Browse all Realtek drivers.
I have tried manual IP and DNS - Nothing
Have installed the new Realtek Driver for Win10 - Nothing
Restarted PC - Nothing
Uninstalled the driver completely - Nothing
IPConfig /Release and /Renew
It all comes back to 'Unidentified network'. Digging further into this I found this exact same issue occurred on Windows 8.1 for some users upgrading from Windows 8. Every post was the same. The driver and hardware are fine as the device is sending packets but it is not able to receive packets packet.
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![Ethernet Ethernet](/uploads/1/2/6/4/126405482/928235917.png)
Pcie Gbe Ethernet Family Controller Driver
So, if any Microsoft person has any thoughts here, please chime in.
EDit:
Realtek Gbe Drivers Windows 10
Found another link to a couple of other articles talking about deleting the DNI-DNE entry in your netcfg via command line. Obviously this is not the answer as lots of people are still saying this is not working, not found or it does not pertain to them (DNI_DNE entries are made for VPN clients, if you do not have a VPN client, you do not have the entry).
So it seems that something else is going on here. And it needs a fix... soon.