Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_3042103C.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter driver. The archive contains version 2.0.0.75 released on 2009-06-09 of the driver.
2.  
3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
4.  
5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer and will install the right driver.
6.  
7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
8.  

This driver was not digitally signed.
Download size of the driver: 486043 bytes (474.65 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 3.7 stars out of 17498 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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 install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install 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 with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5009 802.11a/g/n WiFi Adapter driver. Click on Update.
4.  
5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
6.