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Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver download and installation


Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_45071A32; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver


  1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 3.0.2.168 released on 2014-06-12 of the driver.
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  3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is enabled please accept 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 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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There is no digital signature available for this driver.
Download size of the driver: 1116444 bytes (1.06 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 3.2 stars out of 53339 votes.
This driver will work for 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver


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, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

  1. Start DriverMax and push 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 detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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  5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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