Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0023&SUBSYS_2071168C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 3.0.2.202 released on 2016-01-29 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation 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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There is no digital signature available for this driver.
Size of this driver: 1238608 bytes (1.18 MB)
This driver was rated with an average of 3.2 stars by 57213 users.
This driver is compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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 Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter 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 with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to 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 find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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