Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 is a Bluetooth hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications. In order to make sure you are downloading the exact right driver the hardware id is USB/Vid_05AC&Pid_8282.

1. Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver installer file for the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver. The archive contains version 7.4.0000.0070 released on 2011-06-11 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes 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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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications.
The file size of this driver is 265963 bytes (259.73 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.6 stars by 57956 users.
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 setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's follow a few steps!

1. Open 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 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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