Atheros AR5BXB63 (AR5006x) Driver Reviews

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
Bonobow
Tested on Windows XP
14 Jul 2008
(6 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"I have a Compaq/HP F765EA/Presario F700 Laptop, it came as vista-but I wanted it to be XP-so I downgraded... had so much problems...

but then found this driver for my network driver...

it worked-for my AR5006x driver!!!"

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
Anthony Ching
Tested on Windows XP
12 Nov 2008
(25 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"I often get internet driver problems when I setup ACER Notebook (Aspire series)

This driver works for Aspire 3680.. Don't know if other series would work as well..."

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
genaro de jesus
Tested on Other
25 Jan 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"I installed the driver in a laptop acer aspire 4320 under Win XP pro. It is working just fine.

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
halx
Tested on Windows XP
16 Nov 2008
(19 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Excellent. It Work in XP"
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
derek sarkar
Tested on Windows XP
18 Oct 2008
(15 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"excellent worked for my compaq c773em when trying to downgrade to xp pro"
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Stephen
Tested on Windows XP
3 Nov 2013
(8 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Works fine for Atheros ar5bxb63 on windows xp pro"
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
hunter
Tested on Windows XP
26 Dec 2008
(2 weeks after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"thanx for this driver"
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
John D'Onofrio
Tested on Windows XP
24 Sep 2008
(11 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Worked great on an AR5bmb5 marked Mini PCI network card."
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
BeerkoF
Tested on Windows XP
10 Jul 2008
(9 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Funciona para ACER modelo 4220

Work on ACER model 4220"

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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
jose
Tested on Windows XP
2 Mar 2008
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Funciono perfecto en mi toshiba satellite A205, GRACIAS"
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Paul Cheong
Tested on Windows XP
7 Jan 2009
(1 hour after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Excellent Driver, pls use it!"
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
GeRABELO
Tested on Windows XP
16 Dec 2008
(1 week after download)
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"it works on acer 5315 w WinXP SP2

funciona no acer 5315 com WinXP SP2"

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Leslie Chong
Tested on Windows XP
15 Apr 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Great for Compaq C770TU Laptop !"
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Adrian
Tested on Windows XP
8 Feb 2010
(40 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Excellent, works fine on my Toshiba Satellite

Thanks a lot DG xD"

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
arivald
Tested on Windows XP
20 Jun 2008
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"installation report "successful", but after reboot utility not avaliable (link to absent file)"
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
salluk2000@gmail.com
Tested on Windows XP
20 Feb 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Just perfect for my troublesome Toshiba Satellite A135-S2326 that I downgraded from Vista to WinXP. Thanks a million to Driver Guide!!!"
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
kaj hellstrom
Tested on Windows XP
9 Nov 2008
(5 months after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"this was for OS downgrade from vista to xp and needed a driver. so excellent. no problems at all."
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11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Gabriel
Tested on Windows XP
6 Oct 2008
(18 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 3 out of 5
 
"Very easy to install, but when I turn on the wireless card I get an error an I have to reset the Notebook (Acer 5315-2228), but when Windows loads again it works fine."
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Spud
Tested on Windows XP
24 Aug 2009
(12 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Toshiba A135-S7404 Wireless driver for AR5BXB63"
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
Ron
Tested on Windows XP
22 Jun 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"While moast of ACER's website drivers for the Aspire 5315 worked, the WiFi Ethernet Drivers were corrupt and not complete.

This driver installed without any trouble at all, on WinXP Pro service pack 2."

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Rob

2 Jan 2008
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked perfect when downgrading from Vista to XP on a Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E!"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
J K
Tested on Windows XP
21 Dec 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Work good in WinXP."
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
M salazar

19 Dec 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"excelent in win Xp"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Luis Chantres
Tested on Windows XP
19 Dec 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Excelente contorlador, solo que no lo instale via setup sino con el administrador de dispositivos."
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
james
Tested on Windows XP
2 Dec 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"works like a charm on my Acer 3680"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Brad

22 Nov 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked perfectly for Toshiba laptop. Excellent"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Michal Pelszyk
Tested on Windows XP
8 Nov 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Acer Aspire 5720Z, "downgrade" from Vista to XP.

Installed as AR5007EG, works great!"

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Felipe
Tested on Windows XP
7 Nov 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"It works OK with WINXP on a Toshiba Satellite A215-S4757"
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Greg
Tested on Windows XP
6 Nov 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Worked great on Aspire 5315 that I backed down to XP from Vista."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
adam
Tested on Windows XP
17 Feb 2009
(2 weeks after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"works perfect. I had no problems with the driver and the package.

A+"

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
Guillermo
Tested on Windows XP
17 Jul 2008
(15 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"This driver works very good on a Toshiba a135-SP5820 Laptop, well, my OS is Windows XP SP2.

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7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Victor
Tested on Windows 2003 Server
27 May 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Acer Aspire 5715Z with Atheros AR5BXB63 (sticker on the bottom side)

The driver installs normally on Server 2003 and tries to connect.

I can't test connection. No second wireless device.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
acp
Tested on Windows XP
7 Sep 2011
(33 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"It was a problem on our side. We're installing this driver on an ASUS EEE PC which originally ran on Vista. This driver doesn't work when we used XP on it."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Brian Hoover
Tested on Windows Vista
8 Apr 2010
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 2 out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"Device could not start (Error 10)

May just be the laptop I'm working on though."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Rogerio Tristao
Tested on Windows XP
15 May 2009
(12 hours after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Did not work with my mini-pci wifi card ar5bmb5."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
GABI
Tested on Windows XP
14 Apr 2009
(6 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"installed on acer aspire ONE ZG5 (minilaptop) works like a charm

ven_168C dev_001c"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Zero
Tested on Windows XP
16 Mar 2009
(4 months after download)
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Se instala, pero no inicializa, no lo recomiendo, yo tengo XP instalado en esa laptop."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
CodeWorm
Tested on Windows XP
8 Mar 2009
(3 months after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Workt greate with my custommade laptop.

Chip and pcb where homebrew from manuals, and datasheets. Drivers where working without problems.

RLY check the Chipset if it is not working !"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Harvey Babb
Tested on Windows XP
8 Feb 2009
(46 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Installed in a Acer Aspire 3680 when all drivers downloaded from Acer did NOT work. After downloading, run the self-extracting file and note where it is extracting to. If you have already installed a driver (that didn't work), go to device manager and uninstall it by right-clicking and hitting "Uninstall". Then scan for new hardware and point the hardware setup w
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Fernando Rodrigo Valladares
Tested on Windows XP
24 Jan 2009
(5 hours after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"This driver is working but the hardware no on Presario cq60-112La notebook."
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
David Zapata
Tested on Windows XP
31 Mar 2008
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"In an Acer Aspire 3680: Discharging hangs in 75%."
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Ivan
Tested on Windows XP
22 Feb 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"awesome, thanks!

worked welll on an acer aspire 4315"

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
Julio
Tested on Windows XP
15 Jan 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Used with a Compaq Presario V741NR woked good on XP but the wireless button didn't work, it is always on, not a problem for me"
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
Hancel
Tested on Windows XP
23 Apr 2008
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I try to install it in to an Acer Aspire 3680, workless"
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6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
Paco
Tested on Windows XP
16 Oct 2008
(2 months after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Not working for me. Unknown miniPCI card vendor."
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Kev
Tested on Windows XP
30 Sep 2013
(26 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Needed this to connect using an eeepc 701. Was struggling as, surprisingly, it wouldn't connect using a cable connection or WiFi after a fresh install.

Many thanks."

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