Driver for Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 - downloading and installing it

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 is a Bluetooth hardware device. This driver was developed by Atheros Communications. USB/Vid_0930&Pid_0220 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver

1. Download the driver setup file for Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver from the link below. This is the download link for the driver version 7.4.0000.0185 released on 2013-04-22.
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3. Run the driver setup file from a Windows account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is started 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 installation wizard, which should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your PC and enjoy the fresh driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed.
The file size of this driver is 254020 bytes (248.07 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.4 stars out of 73449 votes.
This driver will work 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. Using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver

The 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. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Start DriverMax and push 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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