Atheros VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter is a Network Adapters device. This driver was developed by Atheros. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_3B001106.

1. How to manually install Atheros VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver from the location below. This download link is for the driver version 7.7.0.523 released on 2010-10-11.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control (UAC) is running then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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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.
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7. Restart your PC and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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Atheros applied a digital signature to this driver.
The file size of this driver is 524930 bytes (512.63 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4 stars by 34058 users.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 32 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 32 bits
• 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. Installing the Atheros VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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 follow a few steps!

1. Start 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 Atheros VIA 802.11b/g/n PCIe Wireless Network Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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