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

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

1. Install Atheros Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 9.2.0.419 released on 2011-05-24 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started 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 pretty 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 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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Atheros applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 1007216 bytes (983.61 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.7 stars by 73648 users.
This driver is fully compatible with 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 use DriverMax to install Atheros Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver

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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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