Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS is a Bluetooth device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications. USB/VID_0cf3&PID_3006&MI_02 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS 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 4.0 HS driver. The archive contains version 7.4.0000.0082 dated 2011-07-01 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your User Access Control Service (UAC) is enabled please accept of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Follow the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be quite easy to follow. The driver setup 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.
The file size of this driver is 266129 bytes (259.89 KB)
This driver was rated with an average of 4.1 stars by 73558 users.
This driver was released 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. Installing the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver using DriverMax: the easy way

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

1. Open DriverMax and push 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. Search the list until you locate the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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