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

Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_30A1185F; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter - install the driver manually

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 9.1.0.211 released on 2010-07-01 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) 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 quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC 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 the manufacturer.
File size of the driver: 849246 bytes (829.34 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.9 stars out of 45104 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with 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 most important 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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 driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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