Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter is a Bluetooth device. The Windows version of this driver was developed by Atheros Communications. USB/Vid_0489&Pid_E04D is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.4.0000.0130 dated 2012-03-20 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is running please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will analyze your computer 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. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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Atheros Communications applied a digital signature to this driver.
File size of the driver: 295168 bytes (288.25 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.7 stars out of 80334 votes.
This driver was released for the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. How to install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter driver using DriverMax

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. How 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 computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth R Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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