Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_00341B0A is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.297 dated 2010-01-27 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 started 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 scan your PC 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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This driver is digitally signed by the manufacturer.
Download size of the driver: 555406 bytes (542.39 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4 stars by 42626 users.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 32 bits

2. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network driver

The 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. How can you install a driver using 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 scan and 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 find the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 802.11b/g/n WLAN HMC Network driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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