Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_43031A32 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 10.0.0.209 released on 2012-09-26 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 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
File size of the driver: 1371476 bytes (1.31 MB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 27683 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way 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 PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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