Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9283 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR9283 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_43061A32 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9283 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9283 Wireless Network Adapter driver from the link below. This is the download link for the driver version 8.0.1.380 released on 2011-03-15.
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3. Run the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which should be pretty straightforward. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the updated driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 594507 bytes (580.57 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.3 stars out of 88594 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 Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9283 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 using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~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 driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9283 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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