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 hardware device. The developer of this driver was Atheros Communications. The hardware id of this driver is USB/VID_13d3&PID_3374; this string has to match your hardware.

1. Manually install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver. The archive contains version 7.4.0000.0098 released on 2011-09-27 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is running please confirm the installation 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 quite easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will scan your PC and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. It is as simple as that to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Atheros Communications.
Download size of the driver: 277103 bytes (270.61 KB)
This driver received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 43224 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. The easy way: using DriverMax to install Atheros Communications Atheros AR3012 Bluetooth 4.0 HS driver

The 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. How can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Open DriverMax and press on the yellow button named ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of available driver updates. Search the list until you find 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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