deleted my wireless driver what to download?

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I accedentally deleted my wireless network driver; it was Athero and then downloaded the Athero driver but still it doesn't work. help please....
 
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There are several ways to go about this. If you have access to an ethernet connection, you could search Windows Update and see if it will download it for you. If not, you'll have to have access to a computer with internet connectivity.

Open device manager and find the wireless driver you're missing. It'll be under Network Adapters and the wireless adapter will have a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it. Right click that and select properties. In properties, navigate to the "details" tab. The drop down menu will have an option for "hardware ID." In there, it will have 2x 4 digit alphanumeric "codes." They will each start with "VEN_" and "DEV_." The VEN_XXXX is the vendor. You've already narrowed that down to...
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There are several ways to go about this. If you have access to an ethernet connection, you could search Windows Update and see if it will download it for you. If not, you'll have to have access to a computer with internet connectivity.

Open device manager and find the wireless driver you're missing. It'll be under Network Adapters and the wireless adapter will have a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it. Right click that and select properties. In properties, navigate to the "details" tab. The drop down menu will have an option for "hardware ID." In there, it will have 2x 4 digit alphanumeric "codes." They will each start with "VEN_" and "DEV_." The VEN_XXXX is the vendor. You've already narrowed that down to Atheros. The DEV_XXXX is the device. www.pcidatabase.com is very useful in this instance. Search that site for the vendor. Use the 4 digit VEN_ number/letter combination and pull up all of Atheros devices. Then Ctrl+F on that page and search for the 4 digit DEV_ number/letter combo to find the device you're looking for. PCIdatabase should provide a link to a download page for that device. If not, you can at least find out the exact device you need, and go to atheros website or the manufacturer of your laptop to download the appropriate driver.
 
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