Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5005GS Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5005GS Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0013&SUBSYS_1053168C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5005GS Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5005GS Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.258 dated 2009-11-06 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled 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 pretty 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. 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: 581065 bytes (567.45 KB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 39825 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5005GS 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5005GS Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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