Driver for Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 - downloading and installing it

Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 is a Network Adapters device. The developer of this driver was Qualcomm Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_1969&DEV_10A0.

1. Install Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 driver. The archive contains version 2.1.0.12 released on 2012-09-21 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please accept 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 analyze your PC 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is not digitally signed.

This driver received an average rating of 3.4 stars out of 58823 votes.

2. Installing the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The most important 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 can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

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 PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Qualcomm Atheros AR8172/8176/8178 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller NDIS 6.30 driver. Click on Update.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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