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

Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_001C.

1. Manually install Atheros Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.7.0.509 released on 2010-04-27 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 (UAC) is enabled please accept 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 computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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 applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 523290 bytes (511.03 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 38182 votes.
This driver will work for 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. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver

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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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 find the Atheros Atheros AR5006X Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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