Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0013&SUBSYS_1042168C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network Adapter driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 9.0.0.223 released on 2011-03-07.
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3. Start the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is started then you will have to 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 should be pretty straightforward. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Restart your computer and enjoy the fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc..
Download size of the driver: 825544 bytes (806.20 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 79966 votes.
This driver will work 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. Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network 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 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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5004X Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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