Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0024&SUBSYS_3A701186 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.2.0.199 dated 2007-04-10 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 started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze 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 was not digitally signed.

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2. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver

The most important 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. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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