Driver for Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter - downloading and installing it

Bluetooth USB Adapter is a Bluetooth hardware device. This driver was developed by Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/Vid_04F2&Pid_AFFD; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver. The archive contains version 7.3.0000.0100 dated 2011-04-25 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please confirm the installation 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 scan your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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Atheros Communications applied a digital signature to this driver.
Download size of the driver: 153464 bytes (149.87 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.8 stars out of 73177 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver

The most important advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and click 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 driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Bluetooth USB Adapter driver. Click on Update.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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