Manually Downloading Realtek PCIe Driver

I am trying to download the network interface card driver manually. It is Realtek PCIe GBE Family controller.

After a Google search, I landed on the official download list.

This software supports a lot of Realtek products. From GBE or Gigabit ethernet to 5G Gigabit ethernet card.

I am using Windows 11. So, I focused on the windows section.

There are NDIS and NetAdapterCX. Two different types of drivers. I don’t know which one is good for my Windows installation.

I did my research. Got the answer as below:

Is the older, traditional method for writing network drivers in Windows.
Requires client drivers to handle complex tasks like data path synchronization, PnP, and power management.
Client drivers run with elevated privileges, which can lead to system instability.

Is a newer, WDF-based approach to writing network drivers, introduced in Windows 10, version 1703.
Simplifies driver development by abstracting complex tasks and making them easier for non-NDIS developers.
Takes over the responsibility of synchronizing power and PnP events, as well as data and control path I/O.
Uses a polling-based I/O model to improve driver reliability and graceful handling of errors.
The client driver interacts with NetAdapterCx, which acts as a bridge to traditional NDIS.
NetAdapterCx uses a ring buffer of NET_PACKETs, which map to NDIS NET_BUFFER_LIST and NET_BUFFER.
A NET_PACKET is similar to a NET_BUFFER_LIST + NET_BUFFER, and a NET_PACKET_FRAGMENT is similar to a memory descriptor list (MDL).

Now, I decided to download the NetAdapterCX driver.

I feel it is installing all these versions of drivers during the installation.

1124.022 , 1125.022 , 1126.022 , 1166.022 , 1168.022 and also10.74

The system will pick up the best one when need it.