Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0023&SUBSYS_3A691186 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter driver from the link below. This is the download link for the driver version 9.0.0.125 released on 2010-02-12.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is running then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through 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 computer and enjoy the fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc..
Size of this driver: 854329 bytes (834.31 KB)
Driver rating 5 stars out of 93752 votes.
This driver will work for 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver with 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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. D-Link DWA-542 RangeBooster N Desktop Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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