Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_001C&SUBSYS_3061168C is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 10.0.0.38 dated 2012-02-15 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 1294265 bytes (1.23 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.2 stars by 9105 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006EGS Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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