Driver for Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter - downloading and installing it

Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_7158144F.

1. Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.258 released on 2009-11-06 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 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 quite 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 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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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc..
File size of the driver: 581065 bytes (567.45 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 68482 votes.
This driver will work 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. How to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax

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

1. Start DriverMax and click 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 driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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