Driver for Atheros Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter - downloading and installing it

Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0023; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Atheros Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.7.0.523 dated 2010-06-04 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is not digitally signed.
The file size of this driver is 515842 bytes (503.75 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 3.2 stars by 23293 users.
This driver is compatible with 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 AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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