Atheros AR5001X Mini PCI Wireless Network Adapter Driver Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
rj
Tested on Windows Vista
2 Mar 2009
(1 month after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"works great on vista ultimate 32bit!!"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
rejven
Tested on Windows Vista x64
6 Feb 2009
(10 months after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"works great even with win7 beta."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
ylandrum
Tested on Windows XP x64
18 Sep 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"I scoured the earth and this is the only driver that worked on my Acer Aspire."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Jonathan Smith
Tested on Windows Server 2003 x64
16 Feb 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Installed under 2003 server for DWL-G520 rev A2 card. Test Ok."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
ralph
Tested on Windows XP x64
6 Feb 2008
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"excellent driver! works 100%"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Autowood
Tested on Windows XP x64
14 Jan 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Netgear very arrogantly replied that "We aren't going to offer a 64 bit driver for the WG311T Wireless PCI Network card. The computer went silent until Driverguide supplied this one. Thanks alot. No my remote computer is alive and well."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Troy Williams
Tested on Windows XP x64
27 Nov 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Driver worked really well. No integration or performance problems at all."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Patrick

26 Feb 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"I can echo all the raves already submitted. This driver gives me the result we all need: Speed: 108.0 Mbps Signal Strength: Very Good Using Windows x64 on an AMD Athlon 64 CPU 3500+ 2.21GHz 512 MB RAM"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Tom

29 Jul 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Used on Airlink 101 AWLH4030 and Windows 64 and it works great. Thanks."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Shelley
Tested on Windows XP x64
26 Nov 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This driver works well with my NetGear WPN311T wireless adapt, I almost found such a drive for several monthes.

Thanks a lot."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
marck
Tested on Windows XP
21 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"didnt work for my acer 3050"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
BJM
Tested on Windows XP x64
16 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"I use this driver for a D-link DWL G520+ rev.B.

Works just fine."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
mjch
Tested on Windows XP x64
16 Sep 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"This driver did not work for my WG311T card. in fact it didnt have a single driver that would even install without crashing the computer"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
drew
Tested on Windows XP x64
30 Aug 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"thank God i found this driver. worked flawlessly for WinXP x64 on a dlink DWL-G510revB."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Zurdox

3 Aug 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Works very well, TnX"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Micah
Tested on Windows XP x64
1 Aug 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"This is for a completely different device. Why did anybody the this better than bad?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Dan Duke
Tested on Windows XP x64
9 Jul 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"This is the first driver I have found that worked for my Airnet AWD108 (Atheros chipset #ar5211) wireless adapter installed in my winxp pro x64 box. I haven't had the chance to really test it but it shows all the networks in my area. Thanks DriverGuide!!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
George W. Lima
Tested on Windows Vista
15 May 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Este me serviu pra o que eu necessitava..."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
pat

13 May 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"getting it for some one eles"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
pat

13 May 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"im getting the drivers for some one eles"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Paul

5 May 2007
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"installed @ working. to early to tell if reliable but happy :)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jon
Tested on Windows XP x64
19 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"This driver works great. the only thing was when i installed my anti virus it messed up the driver and i had to reinstall it. but htat was the only time i have had trouble with it."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Bounty
Tested on Windows Server 2003 x64
9 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Driver works but there is errors in the logs

The Atheros Configuration Service service depends on the following nonexistent service: MDC8021X

MDC8021X.sys is not on the system, it is requested by ar5211.sys"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Ryan
Tested on Windows XP x64
7 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"IT WORKS!!! FINALLY IT WORKS!!! I've been searching for a DWL-G510 driver forever and THIS ONE WORKS!!!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Desi
Tested on Windows XP x64
11 Dec 2006
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Wonderfull! This message comes to you through a Netgear WG311T pci wireless network card. Halliluyah!!! I have now unplugged the cat 5 cable that ran untidily accross the living room floor,for so long. This being the only way i could connect from the onboard lan to The Netgear DG834GT access point/router that is located in the hall. AMD 64 4000+, Windows XP64 Pro. The best
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
coop
Tested on Windows XP x64
30 Nov 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"works fine , thanks i installed this driver on my laptop and everything works fine"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jeff
Tested on Windows XP x64
27 Nov 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"XINT XINT XINT . Works fantasticin Windows x64 , on lousy unsupported Netgear Wifi hardware ."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Stewart Adam

20 Nov 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Installed cleanly but did not work with Acer Aspire 5101 AWLMi (AMD x 64) notebook under Windows XP Pro X64."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Simon
Tested on Windows XP x64
17 Nov 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Could not find a Netgear Driver for my WG311T as Netgear have decided that writing drivers for x64 bit systems is too difficult for them! This one however works a treat, i have full connectivity and it loaded in seconds"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Jim

17 Oct 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Does not work with Vista RC1"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
kejroot
Tested on Windows XP x64
10 Oct 2006
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"it worked for my D-Link DWL-G510, but recently my Windows Update downloaded new driver exactly for my device."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
juju
Tested on Windows XP x64
30 Sep 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"super driver pour ma carte netgear wg311t sur wi ndows xp64"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Eisbaer
Tested on Windows XP x64
5 Aug 2006
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"The driver works very well with ALLNET ALL0281A !"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
george
Tested on Windows NT 4.0
19 Jul 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"works with Airlink awlh4030 on 64bit xp."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
J Dorman

6 Jun 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"The driver did not work with a Netgear WPNT121 adapter using an XP 64-bit operating system."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
werner
Tested on Windows XP x64
2 Jun 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"works excellent with DLink DWL-G520"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Brandon
Tested on UNIX
26 May 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Works perfectly with ndiswrapper in Linux."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
JthePilot
Tested on Windows XP x64
19 May 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"After many hours of searching for a 64-bit driver for my Netgear WG311v1, I finally came across this driver. It installed well, and after I entered my SID name in the Windows Wireless Networking Connection box ("Broadcast SID" is off in my router), it connected to my network. The internet works great!

One thing to note: there were a few other replies that m

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Max

12 May 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Crashed my Windows 2000 System on a Toshiba Satellite!!!!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Curtis
Tested on Windows XP x64
27 Apr 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Holy crap.

I was practically in tears when I finally got my new computer built with XP64 on it and my wireless card had no x64 drivers. THANK YOU DRIVERGUIDE! Works liek a charm"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Praetorius
Tested on Windows XP x64
18 Mar 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Since Netgear isn't supporting x64, I had to use this driver from Atheros. This driver really does work well for my Netgear PCI WG311T on Windows x64 with an Opteron."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mark
Tested on Windows XP x64
18 Feb 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Excellent. Just about installed itself! Highly recommended."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
stereo55
Tested on Windows XP x64
5 Feb 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Works great on my Netgear WGT624 (108mbps)/311T

Works ok (low signal) on my brothers WGT614(54mbps)/311T"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Steve

9 Jan 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked first time. Just extract driver to %sysvol%windows%system32 and then update driver from device manager.

Thanks for the post of this driver."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Steve

9 Jan 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked first time. Just extract driver to %sysvol%windows%system32 and then update driver from device manager.

Thanks for the post of this driver."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Steve

9 Jan 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Worked perfectly first time. Just extracted to windows directory\\system32 \\wow64\\netgear and updated driver from device manager!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
juno

6 Jan 2006
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Will somebody tell me how to install this driver please?"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Augie
Tested on Windows XP x64
5 Jan 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"I have been looking forever to get Netgear wireless drivers. I honestly gave up with every response from Netgear.

Thank you."

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Paule
Tested on Windows XP x64
31 Dec 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"The driver works excellent with my netgear WG311T card"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
GuniGuGu
Tested on Windows XP x64
16 Dec 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Worked without a flaw on XP64, and my netgear wg311t (108mbs)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
GuniGuGu
Tested on Windows XP x64
16 Dec 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Worked without flaw in XP64. Saved my life.

Muchos grazis :)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
OJ

27 Nov 2005
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"Refuses to install in any way, and I have a WG311 card. Looks like the search will have to continue."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gerry
Tested on Windows XP x64
29 Oct 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Hi Folks,

I got a Netgear WG311 WLAN 80211.g(b) standard card. The driver installed but did not work properly.

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Hans
Tested on Windows XP x64
18 Oct 2005
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"this driver doesn't work for netgear usb wireless network adapter (Windows XP Prof. x64 Edition)"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Aaron
Tested on Windows XP x64
18 Oct 2005
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This driver works excellent with my DLink DWL-G520. I highly recommend this driver to anyone with an atheros chipset looking for support for X64 Edition."
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Marco
Tested on Windows XP
17 Apr 2008
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"This is only for windows XP 64 BIT"
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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
simon

22 Feb 2008
 

Installation:  out of 5
Stability:  out of 5
Compatibility:  out of 5
 
"hey iv downloaded the zip file but i do not have a clue how to install the drivers on to my computer can someone please tell me how

thank you"

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Todd Neff
Tested on Windows Vista x64
23 Jan 2008
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"I've got a wg311v1 and despite comments that it is supposed to work I don't see that it does."
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3 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
JoBo
Tested on Windows Server 2003 x64
1 Aug 2008
(3 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Doesn't appear to work with 2003 Server x64"
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