Friday, April 14, 2006

INTEX / ZEBRONICS Fake RTC8139D/RTL8139D Lan Chipset Drivers

Continuing my further research on the low quality LAN/NIC cards available in India...
This new INTEX / ZEBRONICS card has chipsets printed saying RTC8139D or even RTL8139D....
But both these chipsets are fake...

The driver supplied with has to installed otherwise.. even Windows XP fails to autodetect and install it as a Realtek LAN Card...

The Drivers supplied are written by Silan MicroElectronics Inc, China (www.silan.com.cn)

I have tested both the cards from INTEX & ZEBRONICS with XP & SP2 and the drivers supplied worked well..
Here are those drivers which upon installation lists the LAN/NIC Card as Realtek 8139d Card..which is totally fake...
INTEX_NIC_Fake_RTL8139d.zip
Zebronics_NIC_Fake_RTL8139d.zip

Once again.. i would recommend everyone not to fall for these cards...due to low cost...
Go for standard companies like DLINK or INTEL..
Even Original Realtek Cards are available..but proper detection has to be done in order to confirm whether its original or not...
Original Realtek/Dlink/Intel based cards get automatically installed in Windows XP without any driver disk requirement...

UPDATE (27th October, 2009):
Intex Drivers can be downloaded from (Link Updated: 23rd September 2009):
Intex Technologies

or i have uploaded the latest drivers available on website to:
8139D_RTC Based Chipset
8139D_RTL Based Chipset

UPDATE (27th October, 2009)
TechCom Drivers can be downloaded from:
TechCom India

or i have uploaded the latest drivers available on website to:
8139dII_TechCom Chipset

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