Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver download and installation

Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_D6221113; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to 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 8.0.0.258 dated 2009-11-06 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please accept 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze 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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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Size of this driver: 581065 bytes (567.45 KB)
Driver rating 4.3 stars out of 68636 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. How to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup 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 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 computer.
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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 the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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