Atheros Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver download and installation

Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros. PCI/VEN_1969&DEV_1083 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Atheros Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. The archive contains version 2.0.14.15 released on 2012-03-02 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled 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 scan your PC 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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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Size of this driver: 108779 bytes (106.23 KB)
Driver rating 4.7 stars out of 70832 votes.
This driver was released 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Atheros Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver

The most important 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 take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and push 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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