Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver download and installation

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

1. 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 installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.6.0.108 dated 2008-04-18 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 Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC 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.
The file size of this driver is 396608 bytes (387.31 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 5 stars out of 90196 votes.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-556 Xtreme N PCIe Desktop Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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. 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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