Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros. PCI/VEN_1969&DEV_1091 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. The archive contains version 2.1.0.2 released on 2013-04-19 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 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 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 shutdown and 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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Qualcomm Atheros applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 108048 bytes (105.52 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.9 stars out of 81201 votes.
This driver will work for 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. How to install Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver using DriverMax

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. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start 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 driver updates. Search the list until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8161/8165 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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