Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_10891A3B is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.7.0.523 released on 2010-10-11 of the driver.
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3. Run 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. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your computer 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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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros.
The file size of this driver is 524930 bytes (512.63 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4 stars out of 92736 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• 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. Installing the Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Atheros AR9285 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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