Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This Windows driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_651211AD is the matching hardware id of this device.

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

1. Download the setup file for Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 10.0.0.75 released on 2012-07-24.
2.  
3. Run the driver setup file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled then you will have to confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
4.  
5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which should be quite straightforward. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
6.  
7. Restart your computer and enjoy the fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
8.  

This driver was not digitally signed.

This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 3.6 stars out of 95353 votes.

2. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and click on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
2.  
3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9280 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
4.  
5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
6.