Atheros Communications Inc. NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 is a Network Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications Inc.. USB/VID_0CDE&PID_0023 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Atheros Communications Inc. NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Inc. NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 driver. The archive contains version 3.5.0.23 released on 2010-12-21 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 enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty 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 PC 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: 283825 bytes (277.17 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.3 stars by 27713 users.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Inc. NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup 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 using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Inc. NB 802.11n BG Wireless LAN USB Adapter UB81 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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