Driver for Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter - downloading and installing it

Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_153710CF; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to 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 9.2.0.439 dated 2011-08-04 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please accept 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 analyze 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.
Size of this driver: 1009681 bytes (986.02 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.2 stars out of 76253 votes.
This driver will work for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• 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. How to use DriverMax to install Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The 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 with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to 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 on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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