Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_A8221113; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 9.2.0.427 released on 2011-06-21 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 running please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.5 stars out of 99362 votes.

2. How to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax

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 can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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. Search the list until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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