Driver for Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter - downloading and installing it

Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002A&SUBSYS_7158144F; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter 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 3.0.2.202 dated 2016-01-29 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 Service (UAC) 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 quite easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan 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.
File size of the driver: 1238608 bytes (1.18 MB)
This driver received an average rating of 3.3 stars out of 55862 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with 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. Using DriverMax to install Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver

The most important 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 take a look!

1. Open 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 detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Qualcomm Atheros Communications Inc. Qualcomm Atheros AR9281 Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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