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Atheros AR5002G Driver Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
chris sprigler
Tested on Windows XP
19 Feb 2009
(5 months after download)
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"hard to find good atheros chipset driver"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
EDUARDO
Tested on Windows XP
20 May 2008
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"me funciono en una atheron 3054cb aries en winxp todo ok"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Garry
Tested on Windows XP
25 Apr 2008
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Works great on Windows XP. Thank you."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
israel lopez
Tested on Windows XP
25 Mar 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Gracias por el Driver. muy Util"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Bill Bennett
Tested on Windows XP
18 Mar 2008
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Didn't work with the Atheros wireless chipset built into my Toshiba Satellite A210 (under XP). Atheros reference drivers v6 worked well, however."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Martin
Tested on Windows XP
8 Feb 2008
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Its working ok. Thanks."
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
syntaxmovies

17 Jan 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Does not work with Windows ME"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
syntaxmovies
Tested on Windows ME
17 Jan 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Does not work with Windows ME"
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Diego
Tested on Windows 98SE
28 Nov 2007
 

Installation: 2 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 2 out of 5
 
"The installer is not for W98. Had to manually take some files out of the cabs for the driver to install.

But still, no configuration tool"

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
acurint
Tested on Windows XP
23 Apr 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This driver saved me from hari-kari, seriously. I used it to get my wireless adapter working, and this was AFTER I bought a new one from the store. My internal one was trippin', but not anymore! Thanks."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Joey B
Tested on Windows XP
28 Feb 2012
(42 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"Downloaded and works as advertised. After installed you will configure your wireless card from this utility and not from the default windows wireless configuration manager. Under "Profile Management" tab it is easy to scan for and then provide required security options. Utility has good selection of security options as well (WEP, WPA/WPA2, WPA/WPA2 Passphrase, et
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
michael
Tested on Windows XP
29 Jun 2011
(1 year after download)
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"worked somewhat for what i needed. an ok program"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
ron

23 Feb 2008
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"works great easy install no problem at all"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Keegan
Tested on Windows 95
1 Dec 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Does NOT work on windows 95 like it says!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mike
Tested on Windows XP
28 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Installed drivers but could never get my wireless to work work....Never"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Arek
Tested on Windows XP x64
15 Oct 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"It doesn't work with MSI 108Mbps PC60G-F PCI"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
ALVARO
Tested on Windows XP
30 Sep 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"ME PARECE UNA PAGINA PARA NOSOTROS LOS TECNICOSA DE MUCHA UTILIDAD"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Karel
Tested on Windows XP
15 Aug 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 2 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Driver doesn't work when installed without the utilities. when the utilities are installed the Windows welcome screen is disabled"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Roy
Tested on Windows XP x64
13 Aug 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"it works for wilan vaio laptops the driver is atheros Ar5004x, vaio gives u a driver but it doesn`t work, too many people are looking for it."
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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:
John
Tested on Windows XP
27 Jul 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"el driver me sirvio mucho ,gracias"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
jose marin

4 Jul 2007
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"Excellent!!!!! solve the problem quickly, I think that this web site is the best"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Hank
Tested on Windows ME
9 May 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"Won't install on ME"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
sannin
Tested on Windows XP
16 Apr 2007
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"instale pero igual sigue sin detectar mi tarjeta"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Mike
Tested on Windows XP
23 Mar 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This work even better than the other driver download."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
spirit_dance
Tested on Windows XP x64
14 Mar 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 3 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"very nice website!!!

i'd been facing drivers' problems lately!!cant find especially my wireless LAN driver!now i solved my prob!

thx,:)"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
King

31 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"The software mentioned a disclaimer to pc crashing. Too bad for my liking

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
TDJ
Tested on Windows 98SE
29 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 1 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"After unzipping file and finding the setup program it says to download package for correct platform being used, i.e. it does not even install on W98SE."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Gert
Tested on Windows XP
20 Jan 2007
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"De driver werkt zeer goed in een Compaq N610C waarbij de wifi kaart in plaats van de modem geplaatst is

toppie"

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Ael
Tested on Windows XP
17 Dec 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"This Driver fixed the ar5211.sys BOSD(blue screen of death) problem I was having on my computer."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Stewart Adam
Tested on Windows XP x64
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:
DJQ
Tested on Windows XP
29 Sep 2006
 

Installation: 4 out of 5
Stability: 4 out of 5
Compatibility: 4 out of 5
 
"This driver worked only after I taped pin 13 on my Atheros 5004g wireless card, but then it worked fine."
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
treefrog125

21 Sep 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"External Download Link and alternate link didn't work when I tried it!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
M Mileski

26 Jul 2006
 

Installation: out of 5
Stability: out of 5
Compatibility: out of 5
 
"I couldn't download this driver something on this website would not let the download begin>>>>"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Matthew Boast
Tested on Windows XP
15 Jun 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"Working fine, much better than the default Acer driver!"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Herb Christie
Tested on Windows XP
4 Jun 2006
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"went in well, o/s running well, all is well"
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
Juan Pablo Taboada
Tested on Windows XP
15 May 2006
 

Installation: 3 out of 5
Stability: 1 out of 5
Compatibility: 1 out of 5
 
"This driver has very bad problems with all Toshiba laptops that have the AR5004G Wireless Lan Mini PCI. This actually doesn't represent an upgrade."
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Jason
Tested on Windows XP
8 Dec 2008
(13 minutes after download)
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"After installing Toshiba's Atheros driver for my Satellite MX series notebook, my wireless was completely disabled. I did a system restore, came back and downloaded this driver for WPA2 support and it worked. 4 hours of screwing around later... should have come here first.

To be clear, the reason I was upgrading is b/c the original driver in my Toshiba didn't support

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
Sam
Tested on Windows XP
7 Apr 2007
 

Installation: 5 out of 5
Stability: 5 out of 5
Compatibility: 5 out of 5
 
"The original atheros wifi driver supplied with my acer 3620 series notebook does not support WPA2. This driver fully support full WPA2 with 256bit AES encryption. Note that to get WPA2 connection you need full WPA2 support in the Access Point, Wifi card, Windows XP SP2 with WPA2 _MANUAL_ updates, and this driver. Please note that Windows XP SP2 with auto updates does not s
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