Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver download and installation

Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_E6111113; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 9.0.0.223 dated 2011-03-07 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 enabled 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 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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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 825544 bytes (806.20 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 66222 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with 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. How to install Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9285 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 using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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