Driver for Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter - downloading and installing it

Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_A8221113 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 9.2.0.470 released on 2011-12-12 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
The file size of this driver is 967283 bytes (944.61 KB)
Driver rating 4.4 stars out of 95957 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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 AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver with 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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