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. This driver was developed by Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/Vid_0930&Pid_0218; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver

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 7.3.0000.0135 dated 2011-10-08 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 installation wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver installation wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes shutdown and 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.
The file size of this driver is 135602 bytes (132.42 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4 stars out of 18360 votes.
This driver is compatible with 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. The easy way: 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Open DriverMax and push on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Search the list until you find the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 3.0 driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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