Atheros Communications Inc. HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_001B&SUBSYS_500111AD is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.258 released on 2009-11-18 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 running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 541937 bytes (529.24 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 51454 votes.
This driver was released 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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. HP 802.11b/g Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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