Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters hardware device. This driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_661011AD.

1. Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter - install the driver manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. The archive contains version 10.0.0.270 released on 2013-10-17 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please confirm the installation 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 quite 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. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is not digitally signed.

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2. Using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The 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 follow a few steps!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button that says ~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. Search the list until you locate the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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