Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver download and installation

Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0024&SUBSYS_7132144F; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.297 dated 2010-01-27 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC 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.
Download size of the driver: 555406 bytes (542.39 KB)
Driver rating 4.1 stars out of 77126 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. How to use DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver

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

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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