Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Qualcomm Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_1969&DEV_1090; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast 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 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. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty 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 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.
Driver file size: 108048 bytes (105.52 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.2 stars out of 81183 votes.
This driver was released 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 use DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver

The most important 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. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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. Scroll the list down until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8162/8166/8168 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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