Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS Adapter how to download and install the driver

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS Adapter is a Bluetooth hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications. USB/Vid_0CF3&Pid_311D is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS Adapter driver manually

1. Download the setup file for Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS Adapter driver from the location below. This is the download link for the driver version 7.4.0000.0070 dated 2011-06-11.
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3. Start the driver installation file from a Windows account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is started then you will have to accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your PC for compatible devices and will install the driver.
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7. Shutdown and restart your computer and enjoy the new driver, as you can see it was quite smple.
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This driver is digitally signed.
Size of this driver: 265963 bytes (259.73 KB)
Driver rating 4.3 stars out of 45566 votes.
This driver is fully 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 Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS Adapter 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, not just this one. How can you install a driver with 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 scan and analyze each driver on your computer.
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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 4.0 HS Adapter driver. Click the Update button.
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5. That's it, you installed your first driver!
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