Atheros Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver download and installation

Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Atheros. PCI/VEN_1969&DEV_1091 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Atheros Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. The archive contains version 2.0.9.13 dated 2011-12-12 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please accept 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 analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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File size of the driver: 99635 bytes (97.30 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.9 stars by 23396 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• 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 install Atheros Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver using DriverMax

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in the easiest possible way 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. Open 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.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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