Driver for Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB - downloading and installing it

Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB is a Bluetooth device. This driver was developed by Broadcom. USB/VID_0489&PID_E042 is the matching hardware id of this device.

1. How to manually install Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver. The archive contains version 6.5.1.2700 dated 2012-03-27 of the driver.
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3. Run the driver installer file from a user account with the highest privileges (rights). If your UAC (User Access Control) is enabled 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 scan your computer 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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This driver is digitally signed.
Download size of the driver: 937104 bytes (915.14 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.1 stars out of 27336 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 Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will install the driver for you in the easiest possible way and it will keep each driver up to date. How easy can you install a driver with DriverMax? Let's take a look!

1. Start 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 available driver updates. Scroll the list down until you find the Broadcom Broadcom Bluetooth 4.0 USB driver. Click the Update button.
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5. Finished installing the driver!
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