Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0024&SUBSYS_7132144F.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.6.0.108 released on 2008-04-18 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze 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. 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.
Download size of the driver: 396608 bytes (387.31 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 88262 votes.
This driver was released 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. How to use DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start 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 available driver updates. Search the list until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5008X Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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