Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter driver download and installation

Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002E&SUBSYS_E034105B; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 10.0.0.38 dated 2012-02-15 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 Service (UAC) is running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow 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 digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Download size of the driver: 1294265 bytes (1.23 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 5 stars out of 14088 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• 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 AR5B97 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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR5B97 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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