TP-LINK 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 Windows driver was developed by TP-LINK. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_0023&SUBSYS_1071168C; this string has to match your hardware.

1. How to manually install TP-LINK Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the TP-LINK Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 10.0.0.274 dated 2013-11-12 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative 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 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 shutdown and 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.
Size of this driver: 1387406 bytes (1.32 MB)
Driver rating 4.6 stars out of 69760 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install TP-LINK Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver

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. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~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. Search the list until you locate the TP-LINK Qualcomm Atheros AR5008 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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