Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A is a Network Adapters hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications Inc.. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0013&SUBSYS_123610CF.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.297 released on 2010-01-27 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled 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 scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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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Atheros Communications Inc. applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 555406 bytes (542.39 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 5 stars out of 78654 votes.
This driver will work for 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. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver

The 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 can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press 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 available driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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