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

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 is a Bluetooth device. This Windows driver was developed by Atheros Communications. USB/VID_0cf3&PID_3004 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver. The archive contains version 6.33.1123.0302 released on 2010-11-23 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite 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. 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.
Driver file size: 146685 bytes (143.25 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4 stars out of 89824 votes.
This driver will work 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. 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 easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's all, the driver is now installed!
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