From: Paul 
@Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10
Subject: Re: Need W10 driver for Wireless Card
@Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 16:44:03 -0500
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Wayne{at}Cowboy.net wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 19:55:22 +0000 (GMT), "Rodney Pont"
>  wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 31 Dec 2016 14:13:34 -0500, Wayne{at}Cowboy.net wrote:
>>
>>> I have a HP HP Pavilion p6_2026 Desktop PC and wanted to add a
>>> wireless PCI card to it.  I bought  'HP 502300-001 Desktop Dual Band
>>> WLAN PCIe x1 Wireless Wi-Fi Card W/Anttena'  on Ebay, and now I need
>>> the driver for it.  I not only cannot find same, but when I try,  all
>>> all I can get are vendors who want me to buy their 'drive updaters'.  
>>>
>>> Before I give up, does anyone know a source for the driver I need for
>>> this adapter that will work in Windows 10?
>> Have you tried installing it and booting up to see if Windows can
>> locate the driver. Entering the part number on the HP site seems to
>> indicate it's an Intel product so it's possible Windows already has the
>> driver especially as HP say that a driver is not available from their
>> site.
> 
> I got no driver with the card.  I found somewhere a driver called
> 'Atheros Wireless Lan Driver'  and  got:
> Your system does not meet the operating system requirements.
> Update has been cancelled (9998).
> Windows did not offer to find another.
> The hP download site said there were too many possibilities to provide
> a  list of possible drivers.  Cool.  I cannot find another driver to
> download.
> JW
 
The best I could find, is a Windows 8 driver for the 9280.
 
https://wikidevi.com/wiki/Gemtek_WPEA-113N
 
The hardware (Atheros single chip AR9280) appears to have been released in 2010
.
This should yield a PDF file.
 
https://www.atheros-drivers.com/qualcomm-atheros-download-datasheets-nr-106-wit
h-code-4653.html
 
It's hard to believe it is out of support already. This claims to be
a Win8 driver, but it might actually be based on older content.
 
win81-10.0.0.329-whql.zip   2,535,899 bytes
 
https://www.atheros-drivers.com/qualcomm-atheros-download-drivers-nr-308-with-c
ode-4655.html
 
Qualcomm bought Atheros. And Qualcomm does not deliver
drivers to end-users.
 
Give the contents of that ZIP a try. Unzip the files into
a folder. Using Device Manager, pretend to update the device,
and point it at the INF files, and see if Device Manager
is "interested" in the two INF files. I don't know why
there are two INFs, so you may end up trying them one
at a time. While they could be "layers" to the protocol
stack, I can't tell by looking at the INF files.
 
    Paul

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