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I recently assembled a computer (running on an AMD Sempron 3200+ CPU) that will have only wireless networking installed (serial and parallel ports, as well as on-board ethernet, are disabled in BIOS).For networking, I'm using a that (according to the Linux 'lspci' command) apparently uses an 'Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)' chipset.I'm currently using Windows XP SP2 as the Operating System on the computer, and I initially installed the wireless networking drivers from the CD that came with the adapter card. Thanks for this posting so much. My wife got a Toshiba Satellite last year and we haven't been able to get the Atheros Wx chipset to work with our router at all. I posted for help in a number of forums and all folks could tell me was that Atheros was garbage.

Jun 29, 2018  Atheros Communications Inc. Driver Downloads – PC Pitstop Driver Library. Now with Driver Matic, a PC can have up to date drivers automatically. Atheros communications wireless became a subsidiary of Qualcomm under the name Qualcomm Atheros. Driver Matic finally has made it simple and easy to keep your drivers up to date. Atheros Communications Inc. Driver Downloads – PC Pitstop Driver Library. Now with Driver Matic, a PC can have up to date drivers automatically. Atheros communications wireless became a subsidiary of Qualcomm under the name Qualcomm Atheros. Driver Matic finally has made it simple and easy to keep your drivers up to date.

I tend to agree with them for the most part. After applying the V4 driver you referenced in your post, the wireless adapter came to life and connected with Excellent signal strength. Thanks again for your post and offering a link to the driver. I hope other folks that are saddled with the functionless Atheros and the drivers that come with them will read your post and get them working. Well, I'm off to see the wizard. Thanks to you i finally overcame the freezing problem on my system! Thanks heaps!but one thing i have noticed is that although my wg311t connects at 108 and says very good to excellent connection at 95% to 100%.

It doesnt seem to be running at anything near 108mbps. I did some measurements myself. And found it would on avg run at 2MB/s.which is only 16mbps. Im not sure if its the driver you provided or if its something to do with my system setup?also. I have recieved the bluescreen of death once. Which related to the N3AB.sys which is the exact driver that you pointed to above.

(IRQ not less or equal to). Any ideas?plz email me @. Sorry to disappoint you again, but I haven't seen the Blue Screen of Death here. In fact, these days, I have two computers using the same driver for wireless networking, and both of them work equally great (they both have a Peabird adapter that I mentioned in my original post).I wonder if, perhaps, there's something about the WG311T adapter that makes your experience less satisfying? You do need a bit of luck with wireless networking, in my experience; some hardware combinations don't seem to work right. For example, my first wireless adapter was a Netgear WG311v2, which worked flawlessly in one PC, but was much harder to get to work in the other one; and, even after I got it to work, it would occasionally fail to connect upon power-up (some 20% of the time, I estimate), and a reboot was required to get it going. Once I had it working, it would continue to work, no matter how often I rebooted, at least until the next power-down cycle.

Thanks for the reply.after fidling around with the driver. And finding the main site where i was able to d/l the Utility for that driver.

I actually found out that it connects at 54mbps and only gets 70% reception, where as windows was telling me it connects at 108mbps and had 95 to 100% reception.so im not sure whats going on. Thing is that PC is only 10 feet away from the Router.so having 95 to 100% connection was viable. I might have to do some more experimenting and find out how i can get it to run at full speed.but for now your driver is at least stopping it from freezing 95% of the time. One more suggestion, even though it may sound competely ridiculous: You may want to try and move your wireless adapter to a different PCI slot if you cannot get it to work properly (e.g., in case the Blue Screen Of Death turns out to be a recurring problem).While it sounds stupid, this was what I had to do with my WG311v2, to get it do do anything at all in the computer that didn't seem to like it.About the 54 vs. 108 Mbps: I have never looked too deeply into this issue, but the way I have come to understand it, the standard 802.11g specifications support connections of 54 Mbps, and if a vendor claims 108 Mbps, then either they add sending and receiving transmission rates together (yes, it's what some vendors apparently do!), or they implemented proprietary extensions on top of the standard. Since the working driver implements the standard, and does not support any non-standard, proprietary extensions, it will not go beyond 54 Mbps.

Even so, a working, 54-Mbps connection is infinitely better than a consistently crashing 108-Mbps one! Infact when i saw the bluescreen of death, I changed the PCI slot.

As IRQ issues relate to the assignment of slots. But yeh i havnt recieved the error again so far. So that may be solved.with the speed thing. My netgear router wgu624 is a tri-band a/g/b and supports 2x 108mbps streams simultaneoulsy on both a and g bands.

So i am guessing that for the Wg311t to support 108 would be a driver thing with an additional feature called frame burst? Or something similar i think?so well at least the driver is stoping it from crashing atm. And i noe in the future when i update the motherboard and cpu of that system, (making sure its not a VIA chipset lol) i should be able to catch a 108mbps stream without issues.thanks for your help.

Thank youAfter 3 evenings of problems with installing WiFi (lock of keyboard and mouse, no BSOD) I found this post.I was end life kicking my very old ASUS A7VC Duron 1200 Windows Prof (yes it runs on this thing with 512Mb) with a Sweex LW052 wireless PCI card.LW052 Atheros chipset and drivers from Sweex are absolutely not the ones as in this post, but I had to do something (desperation.). And look, the thing is running with the Airlink 5212 drivers as suggested (the card has an AR2413A or something like that).I joined techspot just to save others a lot of work. (I hate spam.). I purchased a HP 5188-3296 Wireless 802.11g PCI Card that has a Atheros AR5006X chipset. I installed it in my Compaq SR1200nx Desktop that has an AMD Sempron 2800+ CPU and a VIA chipset.I experienced the same exact freezing problem that Luvr documented so well in his original post.

I had tried several drivers already all with the same result and I was about to give up. Eventhough the 'AWLC4030 Driver v4.0.0.1733' is for the AR5212 chipset and I have the AR5006x chipset I figured what do I have to loose?I updated the driver exactly as Luvr described and it WORKED!!! Instead of freezing after a few minutes.

My WiFi connection works perfectly.Thank you, Luvr for taking the time to write up your findings.George. Same as Puzzlegeorge, this AWLC4030 Driver v4.0.0.1733 worked perfectly with my AR5006X pci card, whereas the 'correct' driver froze the machine randomly. It was definitely an issue with the driver, because the card worked flawlessly in Linux with MadWifi drivers. The driver mentioned here being an Atheros driver should probably work with a wide variety of other Atheros cards too, Atheros implement a more or less 'one size fits all' driver policy. Anyway, thanks millions for posting this here ages ago.

Problem solvedIt's worth mentioning that the Atheros cards work beautifully when a good driver's found. I find performance outstanding, weak signal throughput in particular is far superior to any other card I've ever tried. It now runs rock solid.The buggy drivers really need to be fixed, because these fine cards are getting the flak. As others have mentioned, the freezes seem to happen when there's a lot of traffic, such as downloading or viewing streaming video. Hello Luvr,I am ready to pull my hair out. I downloaded the files you said but when i go into device manager to look for the wireless card, i dont see it, i havent been able to even get it to work once cuz it always freezes upon insertion. Any suggestions.

Im running XP Serv Pk 3. I have two cards, a dlink and a lucent technologies. The laptop always freezes.

I dont know how to run the sys file since xp doesnt allow me to do it. Another thing, How do I get XP to not revert to the old file once I change the file. Any help greatly appreciated.Thanksluvbebito2. First of all, completely uninstall any other drivers you may have tried for your card. Then reboot.You don't run a sys file.

You've unpacked the driver to a folder, so go into control panel/system/hardware/device manager. Select your Atheros card, right-click, and select 'update driver'.

'Install from specific location', 'don't search, I will choose the driver to install', and 'have disk'. Browse to the folder you unpacked the driver to, and select the.inf file.You say your laptop freezes as soon as you plug the card in, so it's probably loading the wrong driver immediately. Get rid of that, and you might make some progress. Faulty hardware is unlikely, but if all else fails, it can't be ruled out.

ReplyThanks for the reply. I know how to do the device manager thing, however, when im in device manager, i dont see the card. Its not under network adapters. The only thing there is my lans connection. And under the pci card, comes out 1510 cardbus.

If this is it, Ive tried to uninstall but i reboot windows install it automically even though there isnt anything in the slot. Could this be it, the 1510?

If so, how do I get Windows to not reinstall it after boot up?Any idea? I'm stumpped. Im not to savvy with computer terms but I manage pretty well. I was able to get it to do one time, but upon boot up, it reverts back. Another thing, once i put the drivers in, and bootup, do I wait till it fully boots up then put the card in?

Maybe I did a mistake somewhere there.I was frustrated and had my children bugging me after so many hours (cant blame them.lol) I may have overlooked something.Thanks again. Don't you see any devices with the yellow exclamation mark next to them? Have you installed a driver for your Atheros card before? Anyway, the link below gives instructions on how to remove 'hidden' devices in device manager.

Try that, and remove any wireless lan cards you might find. Then reboot, and pop the card in, remembering to go through the process above for installing a specific driver when the new hardware is found.tech-recipes.com/rx/504/how-to-uninstall-hidden-devices-drivers-and-services.

Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductors for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. Founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley and private industry. The company was renamed Atheros Communications in 2000 and it completed an initial public offering in February 2004 trading on NASDAQ under the symbol ATHR.

On January 5, 2011, it was announced that Qualcomm had agreed to a takeover of the company for a valuation of US$3.7 billion. When the acquisition was completed on May 24, 2011, Atheros became a subsidiary of Qualcomm operating under the name Qualcomm Atheros.^[1]

Qualcomm Atheros chipsets for the IEEE 802.11 standard of wireless networking are used by over 30 different wireless device manufacturers.^[2]

History[edit]

T-Span Systems was co-founded in 1998^[3] by Teresa Meng, professor of engineering at Stanford University and John L. Hennessy, provost at the time and then president of Stanford University through 2016.

The company's first office was a converted house on Encina Avenue, Palo Alto, adjacent to a car wash and Town & Country Village.

In September 1999, the company moved to an office at 3145 Porter Drive, Building A, Palo Alto.

In 2000, T-Span Systems was renamed Atheros Communications and the company moved to a larger office at 529 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale. Atheros publicly demonstrated its inaugural chipset, the world's first WLAN implemented in CMOS technology and the industry's first high-speed 802.11a 5 GHz solution.^[buzzword]

In 2002, Atheros launched the first dual-band wireless solution^[buzzword],^[4] the AR5001X 802.11a/b.

In 2002, Dr. Craig H. Barratt joined Atheros as VP Technology. Craig was promoted to CEO of Atheros in March 2003, a position he retained until Atheros' acquisition by Qualcomm.

In 2003, the company shipped its 10-millionth wireless chip.^[5]

In 2004, Atheros unveiled a number of products, including the first video chipset for mainstream HDTV-quality wireless connectivity.

In 2005, Atheros introduced the industry's first MIMO-enabled WLAN chip,^[6] as well as the ROCm family of high-performance, low-power WLAN solutions^[buzzword] for mobile handsets and portable consumer electronics.

In 2006, Atheros launched its XSPAN solutions^[buzzword],^[7] which featured a single-chip, triple-radio solution^[buzzword] for 802.11n. In this same year, they began to collaborate with Qualcomm on a 3G/Wi-Fi solution^[buzzword] for CDMA and WCDMA-enabled handsets.

In 2008, Atheros launched the Align 1-stream 802.11n solutions^[buzzword] for PCs and networking equipment.^[8]

In 2010, Atheros shipped its 500-millionth WLAN chipset^[9] and 100-millionth Align 1-stream chipset. They released the first HomePlug AV chipset with a 500 Mbit/s PHY rate.

IPO[edit]

On February 12, 2004, Atheros completed its initial public offering on the NASDAQ exchange^[10] trading under the symbol ATHR. Shares opened at $14 per share with 9 million offered. Prices on the first day ranged up to $18.45 and closed at $17.60 per share.^[11] At the time, Atheros had approximately 170 employees.

Acquisition by Qualcomm[edit]

In January 2011, Qualcomm agreed to acquire Atheros at $45 per share cash. This agreement was subject to shareholder regulatory approvals.^[12] In May 2011, Qualcomm completed its acquisition of Atheros Communications for a total of US$3.7 billion. Atheros became a subsidiary of Qualcomm under the name Qualcomm Atheros.

After the acquisition, the division unveiled the WCN3660 Combo Chip, which integrated dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM into Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processors. Qualcomm Atheros launched the Skifta media shifting application for Android^[13] and released the first HomePlug Green PHY solution^[buzzword] at the end of the year.

In 2012, Qualcomm Atheros announced a Wi-Fi Display product at CES 2012,^[14] along with a new chip for HomePlug AV power line networking. At Mobile World Congress 2012, Qualcomm Atheros demonstrated a suite of 802.11ac enabled products.^[15] This included the WCN3680, a mobile 802.11ac combo chip targeting smartphones and tablets. In June 2012 at Computex, Qualcomm Atheros added new 802.11ac products.^[16]

Products[edit]

• WLAN – Qualcomm Atheros offers wireless connectivity solutions^[buzzword], including their Align 1-stream 802.11n chips, and the XSPAN 2-stream with SST2 and 3-stream with SST3 chips for 802.11n. The Align 1 also supports WLAN for mobile with up to 150Mbit/s PHY rates for smartphones and portable consumer electronics. Qualcomm Atheros also offers legacy WLAN designs for 802.11a/g.^[17]
• PAS/PHS In March 2005, Atheros introduced the AR1900, the world's first single-chip solution^[buzzword] for PHS (personal handyphone system), which was widely deployed in China, Japan and Taiwan at the time. PHS, or personal access system (PAS) as it is known in China, was a digital TDMA-TDD technology operating at 1.9 GHz providing high-quality voice, advanced data services, and long battery life.
• Power line communication (PLC) – Qualcomm Atheros is a member of the HomePlug Powerline Alliance. Its AMP brand of powerline chips support the IEEE 1901 global powerline standard that supports high-definition multimedia and real-time gaming at a 500Mbit/s PHY rate. Low powered chips, such as those built for HomePlug Green PHY, are targeted toward smart grid and smart home applications.
• Ethernet – Qualcomm Atheros offers the ETHOS line of Ethernet solutions^[buzzword], as well as the low-energy EDGE line, which supports the IEEE 802.3az-2010 Energy Efficient standard.
• Hybrid Networking – Qualcomm Atheros' hybrid networking technology, Hy-Fi™, integrates WLAN, PLC, and Ethernet technologies. The technology, which complies with the IEEE 1905.1 standard for hybrid home networking, is capable of detecting the optimal path for data to be transferred at any given moment.
• Location Technology – In 2012, Qualcomm Atheros announced its IZat location technology. The technology uses multiple sources, such as satellites and WLAN networks, to pinpoint the location of the user.
• Bluetooth – Qualcomm Atheros offers Bluetooth chips for a variety of platforms. The company also offers integrated combo WLAN and Bluetooth chips.
• PON – Qualcomm Atheros delivers broadband access technology in the form of passive optical network (PON) technologies. End-to-end gateway solutions^[buzzword] incorporate standards such as IEEE 802.3ah, multiple-channel, software-based, digital signal processing for the G.711 and G.729 ITU standards for VoIP, and TR-156 Broadband Forum PON standard.

Acquisitions[edit]

• CodeTelligence – SDIO software/firmware developer, acquired in 2005.
• ZyDAS Technology – a USB Wireless LAN company headquartered in Hsinchu, Taiwan, acquired in 2006.^[18]
• Attansic Technology – a Fast and Gigabit Ethernet chip maker headquartered in Taiwan, acquired in early 2007.^[19]
• u-Nav Microelectronics – a GPS chipmaker headquartered in Irvine, CA, acquired in 2007.^[17]
• Intellon Corporation – a public company with powerline communication (PLC) solutions for home networking, networked entertainment, broadband-over-powerline (BPL) access, Ethernet-over-Coax (EoC), and smart grid management applications. They were acquired in late 2009.^[20]
• Opulan Technology Corp – EPON broadband access technology developer in Shanghai, China, acquired in August 2010.^[21]
• Bigfoot Networks – an Austin, Texas-based company acquired in September 2011, with application-aware networking technologies that are being marketed under the trademarked brand-name of StreamBoost.^[22]
• Ubicom – a company known for their processor and software designed to optimize network data, acquired in February 2012.
• DesignArt – small cell chip company that combined several radio technologies on a single chip, used to provide wireless backhaul to smaller base stations. Acquired in August 2012.^[23]
• Wilocity - a fabless semiconductor company focusing on IEEE 802.11ad (60 GHz) was purchased by Qualcomm in July 2014.

Free and open-source software support[edit]

Support for Atheros devices on Linux and FreeBSD once relied on the hobbist project MadWifi, originally created by Sam Leffler and later supported by Greg Chesson. MadWifi later evolved into ath5k.^[24] In July 2008, Atheros released an open-source Linux driver called ath9k for their 802.11n devices.^[25] Atheros also released some source from their binary HAL under ISC license to add support for their abg chips. Atheros has since been actively contributing towards the ath9k driver in Linux.^[26] Atheros has also been providing documentation and assistance to the FreeBSD community to enable updated support for 802.11n chipsets in FreeBSD-9.0 and up.^[27]

The flexibility and openness of ath9k makes it a prime candidate for experiments around improving Wi-Fi. It is the first subject of a FQ-CoDel-based radio fairness improvement experiment by Make-Wifi-Fast.^[28] The driver has also been modified by radio hobbists to broadcast in licensed frequency bands.^[29][30]

The article comparison of open-source wireless drivers lists free and open-source software drivers available for all Qualcomm Atheros IEEE 802.11 chipsets, except for current generation (802.11ac) wireless cards using the ath10k driver that require non-free binary firmware to work.^[31]

Atheros was featured in OpenBSD's songs that relate to the ongoing efforts of freeing non-free devices.^[32]

References[edit]

1. ^'Qualcomm Atheros :: Corporate :: Press Releases'. Archived from the original on September 7, 2012.
2. ^Companies that use Atheros wifi chips
3. ^'BYLAWS OF T-SPAN SYSTEMS CORPORATION (a Delaware corporation) As ..'www.lawinsider.com.
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7. ^'Atheros' XSPAN Dual-Band Solutions Selected for Wi-Fi CERTIFIED(TM) 802.11n Draft 2.0 Test Suite SYS-CON MEDIA'. www.sys-con.com.
8. ^'Best Wi-Fi Routers for a Large House or Office Reviews (2018)'. Hardware Central. February 19, 2018.
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10. ^'Best Wi-Fi Routers for a Large House or Office Reviews (2018)'. Hardware Central. February 19, 2018.
11. ^'Atheros IPO brings big $ now, Cisco soon?'. Tom's Hardware. February 13, 2004.
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13. ^'Skifta Launched'.
14. ^'Qualcomm Atheros Introduces First Generation of Wi-Fi Display-enabled Connectivity Solutions SYS-CON MEDIA'. www.sys-con.com.
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18. ^'ZyDAS Technology'.^{[permanent dead link]}
19. ^Attansic acquisition
20. ^'Intellon acquisition'. Archived from the original on January 2, 2010.
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22. ^Bigfoot Networks acquired
23. ^Ubicom acquisition
24. ^'About/History - madwifi-project.org - Trac'. madwifi-project.org.
25. ^'news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for - madwifi-project.org - Trac'. madwifi-project.org.
26. ^'en:users:drivers:ath9k'. Linux Wireless. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
27. ^'dev/ath(4) - FreeBSD Wiki'. wiki.freebsd.org.
28. ^Høiland-Jørgensen, Toke; Kazior, Michał; Täht, Dave; Hurtig, Per; Brunstrom, Anna (2017). Ending the Anomaly: Achieving Low Latency and Airtime Fairness in WiFi. 2017 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC 17). USENIX - The Advanced Computing Systems Association. pp. 139–151. ISBN978-1-931971-38-6. Retrieved September 28, 2017.source code.
29. ^'[v2,1/3] ath9k: Support channels in licensed bands'. Linux Kernel Patchwork. Retrieved September 2, 2019.
30. ^'Using WiFi Atheros chips in hamradio bands'. Radio Adventures (yo3iiu).
31. ^'Firmware files for ath10k, a mac80211 driver for Qualcomm 802.11ac devices: kvalo/ath10k-firmware'. August 31, 2019 – via GitHub.
32. ^'OpenBSD: Release Songs'. www.openbsd.org.

External links[edit]

• Qualcomm Atheros homepage at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2013-08-09)
• Atheros-supported ath9k 802.11n chipset support at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-04-23)
• Community-driven legacy Atheros chipset support in Linux at the Wayback Machine (archived 2011-04-29)