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. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_001B&SUBSYS_134F10CF; this string has to match your hardware.

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

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver. The archive contains version 8.0.0.238 dated 2009-10-05 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 Service (UAC) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your PC in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed.
File size of the driver: 573219 bytes (559.78 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 47388 votes.
This driver was released 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. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Inc. IEEE 802.11a/g Wireless LAN Adapter A driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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