Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_001B&SUBSYS_1063168C is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.6.0.172 released on 2008-08-14 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 Service (UAC) is enabled please confirm the installation 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 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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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc..
The file size of this driver is 422446 bytes (412.54 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.3 stars out of 14094 votes.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• 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. How to use DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

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 PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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